Margo Gottlieb answered questions about what it takes to create English-language-proficiency standards and assessments and how those tools can be used to improve instruction. Educators have struggled ...

For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker ...

The good linearity depicted in this plot indicates excellent agreement between manual scoring and fully automated scoring, showcasing the potential of the proposed system. In today’s increasingly ...

Grading can be one of the banes of a teacher’s existence. An added complication can be when an English-language learner is in a “mainstream” content-subject class—what are the best ways a teacher can ...

Every year, all public-school students in California, regardless of personal or academic background, are expected to score proficient to advanced on the statewide, multiple-choice assessment known as ...

Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

Students who were once English learners but are now proficient in English do better on average on California’s standardized tests than students who only speak English. Some district leaders and ...

This is a critical moment for education in California. After years of attempting to educate students during a pandemic, districts across California are facing unprecedented teacher shortages and ...

The Multilingual Education option of the B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education is designed to prepare future teachers to meet the high demand for qualified bilingual/multilingual elementary teachers (grade ...