Beginning in the fall of 2017, the makers of the ACT will offer U.S. high school students who can barely speak English the opportunity to take the ACT college entrance exam in Spanish instead.
“English learners” who attend taxpayer-funded public schools right here in the United States will now be able to take the ACT with what the ACT makers describe as Spanish “supports” because the test-makers want “to help ensure that the ACT scores earned by English learners accurately reflect what they have learned in school.”
The Spanish-speaking students taking the ACT will receive up to 50 percent more time to take the important test than English speakers receive, according to a press release sent to The Daily Caller.
Spanish-speaking test-takers will also be able to use “an approved word-to-word bilingual glossary” and “test instructions provided in the student’s native language.”...
Read more at:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/18/act-test-makers-to-give-extra-time-special-glossaries-to-students-who-cant-speak-english/
