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Current research suggests that ELs are under-represented in advanced classes, in part, according to one teacher quoted, because they don't have the language skills to show what they can do.

Spurred by changes in federal law, states are ramping up and revising English-proficiency testing, According to WIDA's director of research H. Gary Cook, quoted in this article, ESSA has basically set a different way of looking at the bar, and now people are trying to catch up to that."

Outgoing executive director Alejandra Ceja discusses the legacy and future goals of this White House office founded under President George H.W. Bush in 1990.

This article reviews the meaning for California ELs of the new law.

After years of deepening child poverty, new federal data show a sharp rise in the number of homeless students who also have disabilities or limited English proficiency.