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This article describes Washington's Grow Your Own (GYO) programs as a strategy for increasing the state's supply of bilingual and diverse teachers. GYO programs recruit and prepare future educators from underserved populations to teach in their communities.

In this article we unpack the obstacles and opportunities associated with language minority student classification practices and, more specifically, English language learners' reclassification to fluent proficient status.

The aims of this study are threefold in their approach to English academy teaching: (i) to assess learner satisfaction, (ii) to assess the impact of satisfaction on loyalty and (iii) to assess the three constructs that we considered to be the antecedents of learner satisfaction: learner motivation,

Sharing the findings from two qualitative case studies, analyzed together, this article examines various ways educators, both elementary teachers and teacher educators, exercise agency in their interpretation and implementation of Arizona's model of Structured English Immersion (SEI), a 4-hour

In this article the authors proffer a theoretical model for analyzing power in language policy processes and incorporate ethnographic data to illustrate the usefulness of the model.

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

With nearly 5 million ELs enrolling in U.S. schools, local districts struggle to develop capacity to meet their needs. This study examines approaches taken by federal, state, and local systems to provide appropriate funding for educating ELs

We investigated whether minority children attending U.S. elementary and middle schools are disproportionately represented in special education. We did so using hazard modeling of multiyear longitudinal data and extensive covariate adjustment for potential child-, family-, and state-level confounds.

This policy update explains some of the changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as it is amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).