For education majors to become licensed, certified teachers, many states require them to pass a national performance assessment — either the edTPA, administered through Pearson, or the Praxis ...

The edTPA assessment should be done away with in New Jersey as the national teacher shortage only grows more dire, nine organizations, including the state’s largest teacher’s union, said in a letter ...

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More states are focusing on how aspiring teachers do in the classroom New assessment called the edTPA launched last month Most candidates for a teaching license in the United States have to pass ...

The edTPA process in 2014 posed challenges for many teacher candidates in New York and Washington—the first two states to require successful edTPA completion for teacher certification. According to a ...

Teacher-candidates who passed a performance-based licensing test on their first try tended to boost their students’ reading test scores more in their first year of teaching than those who didn’t, ...

Since its inception, the performance-based licensing test edTPA has stirred a lot of controversy. Supporters say that the assessment offers a high, nationally recognized standard, while critics argue ...

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 ...

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Support the Tribune now for your chance to win a two-night Fort Worth experience. Two states have dropped the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment, and three others passed on it or want it gone.

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