Recent controversies over Common Core standards have intensified the debate over high-stakes K-12 academic testing that became a national issue with President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. Holding ...

Who is eligible to take the proficiency exam? The Proficiency Exam is intended for students who have considerable experience with a language other than English and who would like to demonstrate that ...

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.

About 60% of Virginia fourth and eighth who took national standardized tests in 2019 did not reach proficiency standards set by the federal government. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, in using the percentage to ...

This is a story about how states have been required to do something under federal law, and only NOW are getting a handbook from the federal government on how to do it. The No Child Left Behind Act ...

French language teaching candidates must demonstrate Advanced Low proficiency to be recommended for licensure. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) describes the ...