{"id":15322,"date":"2019-12-09T16:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=15322"},"modified":"2019-12-09T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:01:32","slug":"teacher-testing-teachers-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/teacher-testing-teachers-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Testing &#8211; more teachers failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of teachers taking the Praxis elementary test fail according to a new report from NCTQ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/more-than-half-of-aspiring-elementary-teachers-fail-americas-most-used-licensure-exam-new-nctq-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by the 74<\/a>. What&#8217;s worse &#8211; just 57% of Hispanic and 38% of black applicants are successful.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are trying to make sure that we have a more diverse teaching workforce and we have only 38% of potential black teachers passing the Praxis.<\/p>\n<p>This is a reality in many of the educator preparation exams &#8211; we have disparate impact of these exams on potential teachers of color.<\/p>\n<p>If we truly want a diverse teaching workforce we have to look at the teacher tests and make sure we are not hurting those recruitment efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of teachers taking the Praxis elementary test fail according to a new report from NCTQ reported by the 74. What&#8217;s worse &#8211; just 57% of Hispanic and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2891],"tags":[2892,2893,2894],"class_list":["post-15322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-test-preparation","tag-teacher-scholarships","tag-teacher-scholarships-texas","tag-texas-scholarships"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-12-28 02:25:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15323,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions\/15323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}