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Cooperation Between Science Teachers and ESL Teachers: A Register Perspective

Published Year

2010

Resource Type

Journal

Cooperation between English as a second or other language (ESOL) and content-area teachers, often difficult to achieve, is hard to assess linguistically in a revealing way.

Language and the Common Core State Standards

Published Year

2013

Resource Type

Journal

This paper points out three different ways that language is involved in the standards: language requirements in the content standards, English language arts standards, and language-convention-specific standards. It calls for a thoughtful integration of these three dimensions.

Teaching the Academic Language and Concepts of Language Arts to Secondary Long-Term English Learners

Published Year

2014

Resource Type

Journal

While the majority of English language learners are found in elementary schools, an alarming number of these students are entering secondary schools. Many of these secondary students are long-term English learners (LTELs), students who have been in U.S. schools for seven years or longer.

Independence, Dominance, and Power: (Re)Examining the Impact of School Policies On the Academic Development of Indigenous Youth

Published Year

2013

Resource Type

Journal

This article explores how school policies framed by Western knowledge systems legitimize assimilationist socialization and learning practices that distance school leaders and teachers from American Indian students and their educational process.

English Learner Tool Kit -- Chapter 1: Tools and Resources for Identifying All English Learners:

Published Year

2015

Resource Type

Brief

This is the first chapter of the English Learner Tool Kit, which is intended to help state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) in meeting their obligations to English Learners (ELs). This tool kit should be read in conjunction with the U.S.

The Learning for English Academic Proficiency and Success Act: Ensuring Faithful and Timely Implementation

Published Year

2014

Resource Type

Report

During the 2014 legislative session, lawmakers passed the nation's most comprehensive legislation in support of English Learners (ELs).

The Bilingual Advantage: Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market

Published Year

2014

Resource Type

Journal

The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist.

FABRIC: A Learning Paradigm for ELLs

Published Year

2014

Resource Type

Journal

FABRICA Learning Paradigm for ELLs. This paradigm allows subject-area teachers and administrators to provide diverse groups of ELs with access to classroom content while they acclimate to an English learning environment.

FACT SHEET: Educational Services for Immigrant Children and Those Recently Arrived to the United States

Published Year

2014

Resource Type

Journal

Originating Organization

DOE

Schools in the United States have always welcomed new immigrant children to their classrooms - according to the most recent data, there were more than 840,000 immigrant students in the United States, and more than 4.6 million English learners.

FACT SHEET II: Additional Questions & Answers on Enrolling New Immigrant Students

Published Year

2014

Resource Type

Fact Sheet

Originating Organization

DOE

This fact sheet supplements the previously released fact sheet: "Fact Sheet: Educational Services for Immigrant Students and Those Recently Arrived to the United States."