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Article: ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION COMMISSIONER ISSUES MEMO REGARDING ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT TRAINING FOR TESTING LEP STUDENTS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 25, 2007
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The Commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education issued the following memo:
Title III of No Child Left Behind requires the annual assessment of limited English proficient (LEP) students' progress in the development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in English and in the acquisition of academic language in English language arts and mathematics. English language proficiency assessment test scores are reported each year to the United States Department of Education.
A committee of Arkansas educators, using the Request for Proposal process, selected the English Language Development Assessment (ELDA) to determine LEP students' progress in meeting Arkansas English ...