Research: ELLs in Middle & High School

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• Advanced Course Enrollment and Performance Among English Learner Students in Washington State
• Approaches to Writing Instruction for Adolescent English Language Learners: A Discussion of Recent Research and Practice Literature in Relation to Nationwide Standards on Writing
• Barriers to Wellness: Voices and Views from Young People in Five Cities
• Best Practices for Adolescent ELLs
• Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America
• Building Capacity to Promote College- and Career Readiness for Secondary English Language Learners
• Improving Literacy Outcomes for English Language Learners in High School: Considerations for States and Districts in Developing a Coherent Policy Framework
• Making Writing Instruction a Priority in America's Middle and High Schools
• Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners
• Promoting Academic Literacy Among Secondary English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research and Practice
• Reparable Harm: Fulfilling the Unkept Promise of Educational Opportunity for California's Long Term English Learners.
• Speaking Out: Latino Youth on Discrimination in the United States
• The Difficult Road for Long-Term English Learners
• Voices of Native Educators: Strategies that Support Success of Native High School Students