As more U.S. colleges and universities accept the Duolingo English Test — a computer-adaptive English proficiency exam — prospective international students have more options in the ...

In the wake of a seismic shift in how the nation’s most-used English-proficiency test is scored, a growing number of states have lowered their criteria for students to exit English-learner support ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — As Rhode Island and Massachusetts schools prepare to administer the federally-mandated English learner proficiency test, educators are raising safety and test score validity ...

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WestEd researchers today released a guide they’d been working on for 18 months, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, to help states create standards and tests for English-language ...

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.

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 ...

Per U.S. State Department requirement, the J-1 Exchange Scholar must possess “sufficient” proficiency in the English language, as determined by an objective measurement of English language proficiency ...

Students across California who speak another language at home are starting to take tests this month to see how well they are learning English. For many students it will be the first time they’ve been ...