A Report to the Nation: Testing Hispanic Students in the United States |
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Page 3 - ... determine high-stakes decisions, such as for student promotion or retention, or high school graduation—but rarely for the purposes of true accountability. When it comes to holding schools accountable for the academic achievement of our students, states allow Hispanic youngsters to become invisible inside the very system charged with educating them. State policies often require that Hispanic students be assessed in English with tests they may not even understand or with alternative but less...
Page 7 - Discussions about the education of these children begin and end with the issue of the English language, or how they lack it, and how best to give it to them...
Page 3 - Who should be responsible for what Hispanic students learn in school? The answer is simple: students, educators, and parents all must share the responsibility.
Page 5 - The areas where there has been significant progress is in the empirical documentation of the impact of bilingualism on test scores and on the development of policies and precautions associated with the testing of bilingual students.