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National effort underway to streamline English-language learning guidelines
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Sherry Williams works Thursday morning with Chicopee Woods Elementary English Language Learners second-graders. There is currently a national push to make ELL standards the same across the country rather than different in each state.
With identifying and classifying English-language learners traditionally left up to states and individual school systems, a new movement is pushing to nationalize those standards. That general push for one set of guidelines is comparable to states joining Common Core, a national set of standards that the majority of states have adopted. Georgia currently belongs to a 33-state consortium called the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium.