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 ...

Minnesota has joined the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium, bringing the total of states adopting the consortium’s English-language-proficiency test to 23 plus the District of ...

(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 ...