Some 100 students at Hostos Community College face a do-or-die English writing test this week to salvage their chances of graduating Sunday. Officials were scrambling to administer the City University ...

Most adults can remember when taking a writing test meant sitting down with a paper and pencil, then scribbling out sentences and erasing mistakes until the time ran out. For many students today, ...

Kichemy Dorcena, a first-generation student at Berea College in Kentucky, says he chose the Duolingo English Test over similar assessments because of its availability in Haiti, his native country. “I ...

Nearly all the 104 Hostos Community College students who took an English writing test flunked the exam that was imposed as an eleventh-hour graduation requirement, officials said yesterday. Only 13 ...

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 ...

Students claim the required writing test is an inaccurate measure of their English The trustees of the City University of New York are embroiled in a legal and political conflict with students at the ...

Students in Arlington, Virginia, made strides in several subjects last year but saw a minor decline in writing, according to standardized test score data shared with the school board last week.

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government and non-government organisations to research refugee orientation, spelling, writing and teacher standards.