Sen. Bernie Sanders laughed off as “absurd” Republican Nikki Haley‘s proposal to require mental competency tests for political candidates over the age of 75. The former South Carolina governor floated ...

Since announcing her candidacy for president in next year's contest, Nikki Haley has repeatedly called for making "mental competency tests" compulsory for politicians over the age of 75. On Monday, ...

New York officials have been talking about what it should take to earn a high school diploma as the state gradually moves away from standardized Regents exams.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — This week and next, students across New York State will be sitting down to take their Regents tests.