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Acknowledgement; PART I: Language Policy Context; 1. Introduction; 2.Language Policy, Federal Education Legislation, and English Language Learnersin the United States; 3. The New York Case: The Local Implementation of aNational Policy; PART II: Standardized Tests in Daily School Life; 4.Tongue-Tied: The Linguistic Challenges that Standardized Tests Pose forEnglish Language Learners; 5. The Ones Left Behind: How High-Stakes TestsImpact the Lives and Schooling Experiences of ELL Students; 6. "Teaching tothe Test" as Language Policy: The Focus on Test Preparation in Curriculum andInstruction for ELLs; PART III: Expansion & Recommendations; 7. HigherExpectations vs. Language as Liability: Why the Drawbacks of AccountabilityOutweigh the Benefits for English Language Learners; 8. High-Stakes Testingand Language Un-Planning: Theoretical Implications of Testing as LanguagePolicy; 9. Moving Forward: Embracing Multilingual Language Policies from theTop-Down to the Bottom-Up.