TEXAS (KTRK) -- At a time when more Texas teachers are leaving the classroom, the state's licensing board is considering a new certification exam that could help better prepare new teachers and ...

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. A new test known as edTPA, meant to better gauge if teachers are prepared for the classroom, is still getting mixed reviews, ...

Eric Wearne takes that up today in a guest column where he urges an end to a mandated performance assessment for teacher candidates that he deems ineffective and without any evidentiary justification.

Inspired by the Chicago parents' and teachers' boycott of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have decided to boycott the ...