Government requiring New York immigrant kids to take regular English test
Tagged: children, student“Even if they know little English, New York’s immigrant children in grades three to eight this year will take the same test for reading and writing that native speakers take.
The change by state officials is a short-term strategy to comply with federal orders to improve New York’s testing of students with limited English. Until now, recent immigrants were tested yearly on their English fluency, and only the advanced ones took the regular English language arts test.
Educators are questioning why they should give a test to children who, by definition, are not ready for it.”
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July 28th, 2006
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