No Child Left Behind improves standardized testing, report says

 Standardized testing for English language learners has improved since the inception of the No Child Left Behind Act, according to report released last month by the University of California Davis School of Education. The 196-page report, edited by education professor Jamal Abedi, found that the new standardized tests better assess academic English rather than exclusively social English, fit individual states’ English language proficiency academic standards and encompass kindergarten through 12th grade, among other improvements. Abedi said the revised tests also measure English proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and listening, as opposed to only reading and writing. Read the article in The California Aggie online or access the report.