Faculty members at community colleges can improve the success of basic-skills instruction—specifically, math and literacy—by taking a more active role in reshaping curriculum and recording data to ...

During a recent visit to a midwestern university, I found myself talking to a graduate student, a dean, and a visiting former foundation president. The conversation turned to the proper role of skills ...

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 ...

Across the country, teachers are sounding the alarm about a new kind of gap in the classroom: kids who can code on a tablet but cannot tie their shoes, write a legible sentence, or remember their own ...

The New Jersey Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has asked its members to urge Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill into law that would eliminate the basic skills tests in reading, ...

REPUBLIC, Mo. (KY3/Gray News) - A high school in Missouri has come up with the idea of a career day that also throws in some basic life skills and explores different career paths after high school as ...