The National Assessment of Educational Progress is a federal program that measures student achievement at three grades (4, 8, 12) across a range of skills, subjects and variables. Student achievement ...

Santa Barbara City College was one of only four from among 110 California community colleges to receive statewide recognition in October for its innovative efforts to increase the success of students ...

Faculty members at community colleges can improve the success of basic-skills instruction—specifically, math and literacy—by taking a more active role in reshaping curriculum and recording data to ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A law that eliminated the basic skills test for teachers to be certified went into effect on Jan. 1 in New Jersey. Director of Outreach at Parents Defending Education Erika Sanzi ...

Emma Lambert easily passed the writing portion of the basic skills test required of Pennsylvania teaching candidates. The math section took a few more attempts. As for reading? She failed 12 times ...

Imagine a classroom where students stare blankly at a writing prompt or fumble with math problems that should take seconds. Teachers across the U.S. face this reality daily, with some reporting a ...

Irving Daniel, 37, works as a behavioral health residential counselor and recently spoke at the commencement for Central Oregon Community College’s adult basic skills program as an alum. He wanted to ...

High schoolers in Oregon won't need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate for at least five more years because, according to education officials, such ...

Pandemic learning loss has impacted students’ basic developmental skills, ranging from sharing to using scissors, raising the stakes for using the summer months to help make up the gap. In this week’s ...