“Program Testing English Fluency Faulted” (Dec. 9), on the new California English Language Development Test, stressed only the difficulties in this new test for almost 1.5 million students. Here are ...

Education professor Jamal Abedi's report summarizes the progress and reports on the current testing nationwide for the No Child Left Behind mandate. Standardized testing that seeks to measure students ...

Half of the students learning English as another language in Lake Tahoe Unified School District scored above the intermediate level, prompting a favorable reaction from district officials. But 50 ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) In passing the Every Student Succeeds Act, Congress rolled back the federal government’s overall reach into testing ...

About 47 percent of Orange County’s public school students still learning English tested proficient on a state test measuring fluency, according to figures released Wednesday. More than 119,000 local ...

A test for students whose primary language-as reported by their parents-is not English. These students take the CELDT upon initial enrollment and annually thereafter until it is determined that they ...