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English learners (ELs) constitute one of the fastest growing K-12 public school student populations in the United States.

This volume challenges the monolingual mindset by highlighting how language-related issues surround us in many different ways, and explores the tensions that can develop in managing and understanding multilingualism.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including cross-linguistic transfer, the significance of bidirectional influences in multilingual children, and the relationship between first language (L1) and cross-linguistic transfer.

English learners are not a homogenous group, and the challenges they face vary tremendously.

The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before. Rather than be mere consumers of knowledge, students must now become creators, critics, and communicators of ideas across disciplines.

Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the Twenty-First Century provides general and special educators innovative information that address the road blocks to effective practice such that diverse learners will be appropriately; identified, assessed, categorized, placed and instruc