English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (Bilingual education & Bilingualism)

✍ Scribed by Kate Menken

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 216
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.

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