Resource Library

For more than two decades, accommodations have served as the primary strategy for ensuring the valid participation of multilingual learners ( MLLs) in high-stakes summative assessments.

Despite the well-documented benefits of bilingualism, current educational practices in the United States reflect the deeply held belief that because the United States is an English speaking country, English should be the language of instruction.

This study reported the development and initial validation of the Survey of Parent/Provider Expectations and Knowledge (SPEAK), a self-administered questionnaire assessing expectations and knowledge about early childhood cognitive and language development.

This study aimed to investigate the impact of different types of scaffolds on the writing regulatory skills of a cohort of Iranian learners of English (N = 120).

Many most well-known charter schools in the United States use a "No Excuses" approach. We conduct the first meta-analysis of the achievement impacts of No Excuses charter schools, focusing on experimental, lottery-based studies.

Aims: In this study, we aimed to examine whether five-year-old children with varying first-language (L1) vocabulary skills benefitted differentially from second-language (L2) teacher-led group talk and peer-play talk when acquiring L2 vocabulary in preschool contexts.

This study examined the effectiveness of explicit instruction and feedback, focusing on degrees of prior knowledge of the personal a in intermediate level second language (L2) Spanish.

This Statistics in Brief describes the percentages of public schools that reported that they had teaching vacancies and subject areas with difficult-to-staff teaching positions in the 1999-2000, 2003-04, 2007-08, and 2011-12 school years.

The objective of this resource document is to offer guidance to school districts on how to expand the recruitment, hiring, and retention of bilingual and English Language Development (ELD) teachers and support staff by implementing the THREAD (Tap, Harness, Reach, Establish, Awareness, Develop) appr

This blog post describes a study of Philadelphia's schools that provided policy makers with detailed descriptive analyses of the EL population over many years. The post also highlights a recent Department of Education publication, from the Institute for Education Sciences.