Sentence examples for standardized English from inspiring English sources

Scores for Long Island fourth graders dropped slightly in this year's state standardized English Language Arts tests, while eighth graders made marginal improvements.

The figure includes the cost of books, CDs, dictionaries, e-learning programs, standardized English tests, and the cost of private language lessons.

WESTCHESTER'S fourth and eighth graders made minuscule gains this year on New York State's standardized English Language Arts tests and continue to be among the highest-achieving students in the state, according to results released last week.

Long Island's fourth and eighth graders made slight gains this year on New York State's standardized English Language Arts tests and continue to be among the highest-achieving students in the state, according to results released last week.

Or Are the Tests Rigged?" — which raises questions about whether questions on the state's high-stakes standardized English Language Arts tests are written above grade level for many children.

All in-coming international students were required to take a placement test at the IEP unless they submitted standardized English test scores, such as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), that met the university's direct admissions criteria.

One major reason is the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a program to standardize English and math curriculums nationally.

But while efforts to reshape and standardize English spelling have been around (almost) as long as English itself, some of the vehement (and dead-serious) arguments made by this year's protesters are almost too delightfully bizarre to be true.

Although there is no official language at the federal level, some laws—such as U.S. naturalization requirements—standardize English.

Most of them seem to believe in standardizing spoken English — to a point.

While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied—from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period—less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon.