Posts Tagged ‘market snapshot’
U.S. Education Market Snapshot: English Language Learners (ELLs)
The Early Days In the 1960s, Victoria Porras attended Melrose High School in Massachusetts as an exchange student from Bogotá, Colombia. She was far from home. Her host family, teachers, and new schoolmates were friendly and eager to help, but the everyday English spoken in the Boston area is accented, idiomatic, and studded with acronyms.…
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As we discussed in recent posts, the assessment market is in flux. But this is nothing new. The passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002 disrupted the market, and for some companies this turned out to be a boon, as spending on state-level assessments nearly tripled in the next 6 years. As you…
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Assessment in Education #1 … an ongoing series on assessment Creative Commons 2.0 by ccarlstead The assessment market is a billion-dollar business. However, the market is in flux and no one can predict what will happen. Here are 9 key indicators to watch in 2017: 1. Uncertainty over the new administration’s educational policies On the campaign trail, the…
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