Math Test Troubles Teachers in North Carolina

THE Journal: If you're facing a teacher shortage for math and a sizable number of potential candidates are failing a math test designed to check their expertise, what do you drop — the teachers or the test? That's the question faced by the Board of Education in North Carolina, where nearly 2,400 elementary and special education educators have failed the math portion of a licensing exam, as reported by The Charlotte Observer. A state standards commission has recommended dumping the test.

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