The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher\'s Course, Second Edition In a school district where half the students are classified as English-language learners and more than 70 percent count English as a second language, classrooms throughout the La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District have had to evolve to accommodate students with different levels of language ability. And with the start of a new school year, the district has a new plan in place to raise English language test scores and encourage classroom participation by students whose parents have often just arrived from Mexico. The students’ struggles to learn English has affected the school district’s overall academic performance in recent years. The district has been placed on “program improvement” status under the No Child Left Behind Act for its failure to meet academicbenchmarks in English-language performance over the past five years.

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