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Gloria Choi
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Gloria Choi

Gloria Choi is a Research Intern with MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, where she provides research support across the Center's projects on immigrant education, language access, and workforce development.

Before joining MPI, she was a Policy Evaluation Fellow with EdTrust-West, where she conducted qualitative research and developed tools to increase educators' policy engagement. She also worked as a youth and education specialist at various K-12 schools through the BRIDGES Schools Program and as a paralegal at a law firm.

Ms. Choi holds a master's degree in social sciences and comparative education from UCLA and a bachelor's degree in cognitive science from Scripps College.

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Fact Sheets
March 2026
By  Greg García, Gloria Choi and Lorena Mancilla

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Fact Sheets
March 2026

Native language assessments are an important tool for measuring what K–12 English Learner (EL) students know in core academic subjects, independent of their English proficiency level. This fact sheet provides an overview of which states offer assessments in students’ home languages, for which subjects, and how this landscape has changed in recent years.