Report: ELL Students In US Schools Show Improvement

The AP (4/7) reports, "Schoolchildren who are still learning English made progress on state tests over the last three years, according to a report that may indicate tougher accountability standards have resulted in positive gains among a growing segment of the US public school population. In a study released Wednesday, the nonprofit Center on Education Policy looked at the performance of English language learners - those students with limited English skills - on state tests in math and reading from 2006 to 2008, the years after federal testing for this group under [NCLB] became finalized." According to the AP, "The study notes gains across many states: Twenty-five of 35 states with sufficient data made gains in fourth grade reading among English language learners."