Soon, a quarter of public school students may be classified as English-language learners, but the rigid reliance on one standardized test leaves many students like mine languishing in classes where they don’t belong—while their real needs go unaddressed. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Mariel Norris
Mariel Norris is a Boston-based writer and English as a second language teacher. She has written about education for Current Affairs, and her poems and stories are published or forthcoming in Uppagus, Copihue, Scarlet Leaf Review, Treehouse Arts, and Zetetic Record among other journals. Read her work at marielnorris.com and follow her on Twitter @marielanna29