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Teachers are sharing the 'basic' skills students can't do anymore – and parents are panicking

A growing number of teachers are speaking out about a troubling trend they say they’re seeing in classrooms: students ...
Harvard Business Review

Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy

Raffaella Sadun, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains why seemingly common-sensical management practices are so hard to implement. After surveying thousands of... Raffaella Sadun, a ...
Morning Call PA

Pa. waived the basic skills requirement for educators. Will it work to attract more teachers?

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 ...
Alfred University

General Education Requirements

The General Education Program, required of all students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is designed to help students hone their fundamental academic skills and expand their intellectual ...
New York Post

Blue state suspends basic skills graduation requirement again, citing harm to students of color

High schoolers in Oregon won’t need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate for at least five more years because, according to education officials, such ...
Penn Live

Pa. waived its basic skills requirement for educators. Will it attract more teachers?

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 ...