Basic math skills linked to PSAT math success Date: January 4, 2013 Source: University of Western Ontario Summary: New research provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very ...

Federal guidelines dictate that a test and its passing levels should correspond to “ normal expectations of proficiency within the workforce.” Yet there has never been evidence that over half of all ...

This weakness in basic math skills may even extend to lower test scores on intelligence tests, and employment tests, for example and may also extend for an entire lifetime of promotions and job ...

In July, the PA state legislature waived the requirement that aspiring teachers have to pass basic skill tests in math, reading, or writing in order to lead a classroom.

One former state teacher of the year has called the basic skills tests “painful and laborious,” and irrelevant to the classroom.

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 … ...

The New Jersey law eliminates the need for prospective teachers to take the Praxis Core Test, a basic skills test for reading, writing and math.