At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

Examples from workbooks that the Citizenship School teachers used to teach applicants what to expect with Alabama's literacy test when they went to register to vote. (Courtesy Veterans of Civil Rights ...

Results from the trial literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education students are in. The tests were sat by 5,000 volunteers across the country, with 92% passing in literacy and 90% in the ...

Large-scale testing, or what many know as standardized testing, often carries important consequences for students. The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make ...