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Zimmer, Kayla Sue – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In 2009 New York State began an initiative to improve teaching and learning through the implementation of new teacher certification exams. The Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) replaced the much-maligned Liberal Arts and Sciences Exam (LAST) that had been in a legal battle with minority test takers since 1996. Billed as a "basic test of…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Literacy, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Competency Testing
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Edwards, Susan – Action in Teacher Education, 2013
The middle-grades program at a state university recently underwent a program redesign in an effort to ensure that teacher candidates are well prepared to teach in today's contemporary middle schools while maintaining the principles and standards established by the Association of Middle Level Educators. The purpose of this article is to explain the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, Educational Change