NAEP Board Curbs Special Ed. and ELL Exclusions
More Special-Needs Students, ELLs to Be Given Assessment
Over the objection of officials at the statistical wing of the U.S. Department of Education, the independent body that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress has approved a policy that significantly narrows the grounds for excluding students with disabilities and English-language learners from the exams.
Beginning as early as next year, the National Assessment Governing Board will also highlight states and districts that don’t meet testing-participation targets for those populations.
Adopted March 6, the new policy caps a decadelong effort to increase participation of students with disabilities and ELLs in the federally sponsored assessment and to bring uniformity to exclusion and accommodations decisions on...
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