The WIDA ACCESS language proficiency test is used across close to 40 states as part of the federal requirement to determine whether English learners continue to need language-development services. The ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

Eli Soler recently added an element to his classes for would-be commercial truck drivers: a mock roadside English-proficiency test. “How many hours have you driven? Where is this load going to?” Soler ...