Assessments in K-12 schools have traditionally been designed with a monolingual English-speaking student in mind. But the English learner population, speaking a variety of home languages, continues to ...

Most districts rely on annual ELP assessments that arrive too late to inform instruction, leaving educators guessing whether students are making progress and where to adjust supports. Ellevation ...

Dynamic assessment in language learning integrates teaching and evaluation into a unified process by providing immediate, tailored mediation. This approach transcends traditional testing methods by ...

Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

Educators are worried about students losing ground while school buildings are closed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The so-called coronavirus- or “COVID slide” may be especially ...

Abedi, J. (Ed.). 2007. English Language Proficiency Assessment in the Nation: Current Status and Future Practice. Davis: University of California. Abedi, J. 2008 ...

WORCESTER – While the Worcester public schools still have a way to go to improve outcomes for English language learners, the new head of the system’s ELL programs last week outlined the many fronts on ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Students who were once English learners but are now proficient in English do better on average on California’s ...

A new audit has revealed thousands of New York City public school students who are English language learners have not received the access to courses or instruction they are entitled to, as required by ...

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher ...

A historically difficult hurdle for English language learners is returning next month with bigger stakes – pass Indiana’s third grade reading assessment or risk being held back. Today’s third graders ...