Now that we know how much states are likely to have to pony up per student for the new PARCC tests (and also Smarter Balanced tests), similar cost questions are being raised about the new ...

It’s been a field-testing frenzy all spring with five separate assessment groups asking school districts and students to test drive the array of new exams they are designing to measure students’ ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Linguists from Joint Base Lewis-McCHord, Wash., the Army National Guard and Reserve units put their foreign language skills to the test during a course that would ...

Sailors who speak Italian or Polish now have an opportunity to take the Defense Language Proficiency Test Five (DLPT5) using Web Based Field Testing (WBFT) from Feb. 28 to June 1. Examinees will be ...

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 ...

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.

Thousands of California students remain classified as English learners even after they reach proficiency in English, according to research.

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (April 5, 2019) -- Thirteen international language proficiency testers from NATO and partner nations graduate from the Partner Language Training Center Europe's ...