Students are taking more standardized basic skills tests than ever. But before they can teach the skills, teachers have to show they have them, and that can sometimes be more daunting than the word ...

Assessment tests are used by employers in a variety of ways to ensure job candidates, as well as current employees, have the required skills to perform different jobs within an organization. Many of ...

A New Jersey teachers union wants to change the state's standards for entering the profession. The Garden State currently requires that candidates for teacher certification pass a basic skills test ...

In a bid to address the ongoing teacher shortage crisis, the New Jersey Education Association is actively campaigning for the elimination of a basic skills test for teachers. The union, in a statement ...

New Jersey will no longer require candidates to take basic skills tests to become a teacher in the state, under a bipartisan law Gov. Phil Murphy signed Monday — the latest change state leaders have ...