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It was one thing to ask Texas teachers — during an ongoing teacher’s shortage — to make extra room in their busy home routines for online classroom teaching for months,

K-3 teachers in Texas have until 2023 to complete a 60-hour Reading Academies course to keep the job. It’s taking some 120 hours on their own time to finish.

The Texas Legislature has insisted those who teach grades K-3 need to complete a 60-to-120 hour course on reading if they want to keep their jobs.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a math initiative that will use instructional coaches, assessments and interventions to try to boost the state's perpetually lagging test scores.

After a two-year COVID-induced hiatus, another full-fledged year of subjecting third-through-eighth grade public school kids to New York State tests begins Tuesday. This week, up to 1.2 million students, including 400,000 in New York City, will take the English Language Arts (ELA) exam. The math tests will come a few weeks later.

In the last few years, I’ve heard a lot of complaints that doctors don’t do real doctoring anymore. ...

Journey Elementary School teacher Rebecca Junge stood in front of an auditorium full of her students and peers to accept the Milken Educator Award, which included an unrestricted $25,000 to do with what she wanted.

There are many pressing issues affecting education right now, from financial accountability, measurements in learning, equality in education, and the urgent need for qualified educators. But the lack of civics

Journey Elementary School teacher Rebecca Junge stood in front of an auditorium full of her students and peers to accept the Milken Educator Award, which included an unrestricted $25,000 to do with what she wanted.

The bills, which passed by votes of 104-1, reflect a national trend away from reliance on standardized testing by U.S. colleges and universities.