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 ...

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UPDATE: This story was updated Friday evening with comments from a Murphy administration official. New Jersey schools will begin using a new kind of “adaptive” statewide standardized test next spring ...

About half of all parents say that their children have struggled to learn how to read at some point in their education. Still, the majority think that their child’s elementary school is putting the ...