Recent controversies over Common Core standards have intensified the debate over high-stakes K-12 academic testing that became a national issue with President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. Holding ...

ITSC’s NCTA 2025 presentation on whether English proficiency scores predict academic readiness, based on a nationwide ...

Who is eligible to take the proficiency exam? The Proficiency Exam is intended for students who have considerable experience with a language other than English and who would like to demonstrate that ...

A criterion-referenced, multi-level English test trusted across government, academia, and professional certification ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES, January 28, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / — International Testing Services Center (ITSC Group) has released its 2025 Annual Research Summary, highlighting 25 years of ...

About 60% of Virginia fourth and eighth who took national standardized tests in 2019 did not reach proficiency standards set by the federal government. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, in using the percentage to ...

French language teaching candidates must demonstrate Advanced Low proficiency to be recommended for licensure. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) describes the ...