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Early Edge California and partners have launched a new website for educators and administrators supporting multilingual learners in PreK-3rd Grade.

The U.S. spends far more on education than any other country in the world (OECD, 2011); yet, continues to produce vastly inequitable outcomes, especially for English Learners (ELs). In this article we explore the reasons for, and consequences of, the U.S.

The purpose of this cluster randomized group study was to investigate the effect of multitiered, dual-language instruction on children's oral language skills, including vocabulary, narrative retell, receptive and expressive language, and listening comprehension.

This article focuses on three Mexican-origin students who attended a Spanish/English dual language program in a southern California school district for their elementary and middle school education. All three students speak Spanish, English, and the indigenous language of Zapoteco.

The language profiles of young multilingual children and monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) are similar and can be easily confused. This confusion can lead to under- and over-diagnoses of DLD in multilingual children.

A new study published in the Journal of Teacher Education finds that student teachers with more multicultural awareness foster more positive classroom environments for their students, but that awareness varies considerably among future teachers based on prior experience working with youth of color.

Current and former English-language learners have made significant progress in the past 15 years on the test dubbed the "Nation's Report Card"improving faster than English-only students. That's the takeaway from a study released this morning in the journal Education Researcher.

In four volumes, Werner Leopold documented his first child's acquisition of German and English (e.g. 1939; 1949).

Using Jarvis's (2009) framework of adult learning, this study examines how inservice elementary school teachers make sense of instruction that is responsive to multilingual learners.