Is Little Bill Clinton Failing or is the Test Failing Him?
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Is Little Bill Clinton Failing or is the Test Failing Him?

By Mary Ann Zehr — February 13, 2009 1 min read
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I mention over at Learning the Language that reporters for the Christian Science Monitor have found a refugee kid named Bill Clinton Hadam in Georgia and are following him for a series “Little Bill Clinton: A school year in the life of a new American.”

One of the latest installments of the series, “Who’s failing—the student or the test?,” explores what’s at fault in that a school doesn’t get credit in adequate yearly progress calculations under the No Child Left Behind Act for the progress of an English-language learner such as little Bill Clinton.

Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She is the author of the blog Learning the Language.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog.