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Education in Crisis: Looking to the Margins to Find Our Center as Educators Working with Refugee and Migrant Students and Families

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Journal

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities within our education systems, and, in many cases, has further marginalized students of refugee and migrant backgrounds.

Resource for Self-Determination or Perpetuation of Linguistic Imposition: Examining the Impact of English Learner Classification among Alaska Native Students

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Report

Federal law defines eligibility for English learner (EL) classification differently for Indigenous students compared to non-Indigenous students. Unlike non-Indigenous students, Indigenous students are not required to have a non-English home or primary language.

Alaska Native Students as English Learner Students: Examining Patterns of Identification, Classification, Service Provision, and Reclassification

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Report

Originating Organization

DOE

In Alaska, Indigenous students make up a large segment of the English learner (EL) population. This report examined Alaska Native kindergarten students who are classified as ELs; the data are from school year 2011-12 through school year 2018-19.

Supporting Educators in Determining Special Education Eligibility of English Learner Students

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Guide

This slide deck accompanies a Practitioner's Brief, Determining Special Education Eligibility of English Learners, the REL Northeast & Islands recently published.

Surveying the Landscape of California's English Learner Reclassification Policy

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Report

How do California's school districts decide when English learners (ELs) are ready to exit the EL designation through the process of reclassification? This is the question that California's policymakers asked and which this brief discusses.

Learning Through Performance Project-Based Learning as a Lever for Engaging the Next-Generation Science Standards

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Journal

This article reports on findings from a multiyear implementation of the Learning Through Performance (LTP) in Middle School project. The LTP uses Project-Based Learning and Performance-Based Assessment approaches to teach the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Determining Special Education Eligibility of English Learners

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Brief

Elementary teachers often have difficulty determining whether a student should be referred for special education services. That task is further compounded when the student is an English learner (EL).

Challenges in Assessing California's Diverse Dual Language Learners

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Brief

Many of the assessments of young children's academic and social-emotional skills currently available are only in English.

Investigating Outcomes for English Language Learners in Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) Pre-K

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Brief

Students with limited English proficiency face numerous educational challenges with the potential result of large achievement gaps between these students and their English proficient peers.

English Learners with Disabilities (August 2021)

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Fact Sheet

Originating Organization

OELA

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), state educational agencies (SEAs) and school districts are responsible for locating, identifying, and evaluating all students, including English learners (ELs), who have disabilities1 and who need special education and related services