NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage ...

New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and ...

For those still unsure whether the nation’s public school system could use a reset, consider the recent news from New York. Four years ago, the state introduced a literacy exam for prospective ...

DECATUR - Sitting at a small table with literacy coach Debbie Roberts at Harris School, third-grader Katelynn Martin read a story aloud while Roberts timed her. At the end of 60 seconds, Roberts told ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

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 ...

Literacy screenings are not typically conducted in medical settings ...

Sara Bode of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio speaks with NPR's Emily Kwong about why many pediatric centers have started screening kids for literacy skills.