“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 ...

About 44 percent of Orange County’s public school students still learning English passed a state test measuring fluency, figures released Friday reveal. More than 122,000 English learners took the ...

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 ...

Compared to the state and county scores, Lake Tahoe Unified School District students did better on a test for those whose primary language isn’t English. California Superintendent of Public ...

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 ...

Schools in San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties this year did not increase the percentage of English learners scoring at advanced performance levels. The California English Language Development ...

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 ...

WATSONVILLE — In 2010, more than 1,200 kindergartners in Pajaro Valley schools were tested for their skills in English. Nearly all were classified English learners. A new study by UC Berkeley ...

Though the scores of English-language learners continue to rise on California’s English-proficiency test, the rate at which school districts deem students as fluent in English has barely budged in ...

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 ...

About 40 percent of Orange County’s public school students still learning English passed a state test measuring fluency, according to new figures. More than 122,800 English learners took the ...