“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 ...
More local students who are learning to speak English scored well this year on tests designed to track their acquisition of the language, state officials said Wednesday. Scores on the California ...
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 ...
About 40 percent of Orange County’s public school students still learning English passed a state test measuring fluency, according to new figures. More than 122,800 English learners took the ...
States across the country are scrambling to craft better tests for students with limited English skills in response to stringent new timelines imposed by the “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001. As ...
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 ...