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This policy brief reviews the challenges as well as essential, research-based components of a comprehensive professional development program for general education teachers of ELs.

Many middle school teachers lack adequate criteria to critically select materials that represent a variety of L2 teaching models. This study analyzes the illustrated and written content of 33 ELL textbooks to determine the range of L2 teaching models represented.

This study builds on previous work to examine parent reasons for enrolling their children in a two-way immersion (TWI) charter school.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 47 million people living in the United States spoke a language other than English at home in 2000, representing approximately 18% of the total U.S. population (NCES, 2004).

In this study, we compared the referrals for special education evaluation of U.S. mainland-born children with those of mostly Latino non-mainland-born children in two school systems in the Northeastern United States.

Think-aloud protocols (TAPs) are frequently used in research on essay rating processes. However, there are very few empirical studies of the completeness of TAP data and the effects of this technique on rater performance (i.e., rating processes and outcomes).

New York City sets itself apart from many locations in the USA due to its citizens' unparalleled diversity.

This research considers the role of the principal and teachers in promoting and supporting dual language bilingual education in three established elementary school programs in New York City.

The purpose of this study was to examine how fourth-grade Spanish-English speaking bilingual students in the USA participated differently in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) literature groups when they were invited to use all of their linguistic resources vs.

The precursors of early English reading success have been widely studied for native English-speaking students, and those findings have been generalized to the English language learner (ELL) student population.