News Brief

10/09/12

Guide: Tying Common Core and English-Proficiency

Education Week (10/09/12) Maxwell, Lesli A.The Council of Chief State School Officers has issued a framework to guide states in revising English-language-proficiency standards for English-language-learners. The U.S. Department of Education requires states that have received No Child Left Behind waivers to have English-language-proficiency standards that correspond to the Common Core State Standards. "For states, it's tricky to know what 'correspond' means exactly. What the framework writers have done is take the common core and the Next Generation Science Standards and identified the language demands in each of those content standards and described them," says Stanford University education professor Kenji Hakuta, who advised the framework developers. States like California, Florida, and New York are already in the process of revising their proficiency standards. The framework can be found here.

 

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