This study examines district-level ELL policies and practices as well as the historical, administrative, and programmatic contexts of four school systems with ELL student achievement growth between 2002 and 2006.
Maria Estela Zarate provides a unique look at Latino parents' involvement in their children's education from the distinct perspectives of parents, educators, and children.
This article explores the Congressional definitions of "who's Hispanic," explaining why Sonia Sotomayor will be considered the first Hispanic Justice on the Supreme Court.
Our national conversation about race tends to take place in black and white, yet the greatest disparities in human well-being to be found in the U.S. are between Asian Americans in New Jersey and Native Americans in South Dakota.
Many immigrant students enter U.S. schools having had little or no prior schooling in their home countries. These children must master grade-level content at the same time that they are learning to speak, read, and write in English.
This article by Phitsamay Uy, Board Chair of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, offers insight into the experience of immigrants to the U.S. from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
Public flagship universities provide excellence to students who cannot afford high-quality private institutions. Yet many of these universities direct aid to wealthy students who will attend college without it.
This study examines the relationship between performance on Utah's English proficiency assessment and English language arts and mathematics content assessments by English language learner students and compares the performance of English language learne
This paper examines the graduation/dropout crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students using data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
The report summarizes the presentations of 15 outstanding high schools that were featured at the fifth annual conference of the AGI at Harvard University.