Margo Gottlieb answered questions about what it takes to create English-language-proficiency standards and assessments and how those tools can be used to improve instruction. Educators have struggled ...

Simplifying test questions so that they avoid unnecessarily complex English is the best way for states to include English-language learners in large-scale testing, according to the most prominent ...

This chapter addresses the issue of assessing the language proficiency and subject matter knowledge and skills of English-language learners. 1 Assessment plays a central role in the education of ...

Spread the love“`html In today’s multicultural classrooms, teaching English language learners (ELLs) has become a crucial aspect of education. As of recent statistics, nearly 5 million students in the ...

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 requires states to annually assess the English language proficiency of their students who are classified as limited English proficiency (LEP), also referred ...

Spread the love“`html Understanding the Core Components of Language Language is a complex system that combines various components, each playing a vital role in effective communication. When it comes ...

This article is part of the collection: Data Bytes: Parsing Education Data Into Snack-Size Servings. Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that ...

“What do you want your teacher to know about you?” Esther considered the question, sitting in a small room with Ms. Odette, the interpreter who was working with her to complete her learning profile—a ...

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 ...