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| Title | New York City's new, more stringent ESL exam |
| Body | Full article available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/education/13education.html?ex= 1098331200&en=4e14d79dcb09b23f&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER Free registration required. The article begins: Two weeks into the new school year, Melanie Fordin paid an anxious visit to a colleague's office at Richmond Hill High School in Queens. She had heard that the results were in from the state test for those immigrant students officially known as English Language Learners, dozens of them in Ms. Fordin's classes. The scores would dictate who got to move into the school's English-speaking mainstream and who stayed in a separate, slower track, putatively to become more fluent. The previous year had been a horror story. Only 4 pupils of nearly 600 from Richmond Hill who took the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test passed it. Incredibly, more than 60 of those failures already had passed the state Regents exam in English, the traditional benchmark for college-bound students. The article continues to discuss whether the test meets the goal of placing students in appropriate classes. Freedman, Samuel G. A test seemingly intended to keep students behind. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/education/13education.html (13 Oct. 2004). |
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| Inputdate | 2004-10-14 14:52:00 |
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