In this excerpt from Educational Leadership, Yu Ren Dong proposes that by teaching language learning strategies, content area teachers can accelerate content mastery for their English language learners.
Published by the Indiana Department of Education, this guide provides clear, detailed instructions for making content-area text accessible to ELLs.
This report released by a group of the country's leading experts in education for English language learners recommends ways in which funds from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) could be used to improve educational outcomes for ELL
This report by the Educational Testing Service provides an excellent discussion of a wide range of topics related to assessment for ELLs.
A recent report prepared for The National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force looks specifically at assessment for three- and four-year-old English language learners in early education programs.
The Teacher's Guide to Diversity: Building a Knowledge Base (Trumbull, Pacheco, 2005), published by The Education Alliance at Brown University, offers a wealth of information about multicultural influences on human development, culture, cognit
In this report, Szpara and Ahmad describe a study that partnered university faculty with high school social studies teachers in an effort to make social studies content accessible to English language learners.
When students take a state achievement test in mathematics, test directions and test items typically are presented in English. Students with low English proficiency might not understand the test directions or the math problems.
The study begins with the premise that the academic challenges of Asian American students are hidden by: (1) the "model minority" stereotype that assumes all Asian Americans are academically successful; (2) the practice of lumping disparate Asian Ameri
Student mobility and its relationship to academic success have been researched since World War II with varied findings (Goebel, 1978).