Schools are required to test the progress of their English learners each year to determine whether they still need language instruction services or can exit out of such programs. In close to 40 states ...

WIDA, the consortium most educators may know for its language-proficiency test used for identifying English learners in close to 40 states, is moving more into professional development programming for ...

Multilingual students in Lewiston and Auburn have annually shown success with the national multilingual test. But this year ...

(2nd Update: Adding response from WIDA at University of Wisconsin, and response from author) We’ve been hearing a lot about problems with new Common Core tests that were designed to be harder than the ...