From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/california-english-profic_n_970582.html
California English Proficiency Test 'Almost Guarantees' English Learner Classification, Study Shows
September 19, 2011
Most four- and five-year-olds who take an English proficiency exam before kindergarten are bound to fail the test, according to a new study.
Taking the California English Language Development Test "almost guarantees" a student will be classified as an English learner, the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research, study reports. Just 12 percent of kindergarten students who took the CELDT in the 2009-2010 school year were considered English language proficient, misidentifying the many others as English learners, according to the study.
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