WASHINGTON — Statewide testing to measure the academic performance of students was paused during the first, disrupted year of the COVID-19 pandemic as schooling moved online, and assessments came back in abbreviated format when many pupils returned to the classroom for the 2020-21 school year. Yet with many school districts and states not tracking or publicly reporting on how instruction varied across key demographics, it is difficult to assess how the nation’s 5 million English Learner (EL) students fared.
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