This news will be well received by a lot of educators: Today, the Georgia Professional Standards Commission removed the requirement that all teacher candidates complete the edTPA, or Educators' ...

EdSource · Sexual abuse claims threaten school district budgets, even when not accused There is a major national education reform under way, with its origins in California; which may result in the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, March 6, the Education Committee held a hearing on House Bill 5376, a bill that proposes the elimination of edTPA as a requirement for teacher certification. As a former public school ...

Morehead State University's Ernst & Sara Lane Volgenau College of Education is celebrating a historic academic milestone after student-teachers achieved the highest Educative Teacher Performance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Georgia will no longer require aspiring teachers to pass the performance-based licensing test edTPA, calling it a barrier to entry. EdTPA is the first standards-based assessment for teacher-candidates ...