California English Proficiency Test 'Almost Guarantees' English Learner Classification

[Francis Hult]

Huffington Post

 

California English Proficiency Test 'Almost Guarantees' English Learner Classification, Study Shows 

 

Taking the California English Language Development Test "almost guarantees" a student will be classified as an English learner, the University of California, Berekely's Center for Latino Policy Research, study reports. Just 12 percent of kindergarten students who took the CELDT in the 2009-2010 school year were considered English language proficient, misidentifying the many others as English learners, according to the study.

 

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/california-english-profic_n_970582.html

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