A team tested and validated elaborated language sampling (ELS) as a reliable set of procedures for collecting, measuring and analyzing the spoken language of youth with Down syndrome in a naturalistic ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The latest data on how English-learners around the country fared in their language development during the pandemic are out. But there’s a major catch: About 30 percent fewer students took a widely ...

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 new state-mandated test, designed to measure the progress of California’s 1.5 million students who are not fluent in English, is getting mixed reviews from school districts complaining that it costs ...

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 ...

Erika Garcia wanted to fulfill the opportunity given to her when her parents moved from Mexico to South Lake Tahoe. But it wasn’t easy. “You’re being pressured all the time to keep up with standards: ...

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 ...