New York might soon get rid of the literacy exam requirement for prospective teachers, partly because a large amount of Hispanic and black candidates were failing it. The Associated Press reported ...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase scores on the DIBELS exam, a standardized test that measures early literacy skills for students in kindergarten through third grade. One school is ...
Louisiana stopped requiring that prospective voters pass so-called literacy tests a half-century ago this summer, after the passage of the Voting Rights Act that banned the practice across the South.