English Language Learners
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INFORMATION
RESOURCES
Pennsylvania Department of Education
English as a Second Language
Language Proficiency Standards for English Language Learners
U.S. Department of Education
Office of English Language Acquisition
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
NCLB Regulations for Limited English Proficiency Students
Education Law Center - PA
Pennsylvania English Language Learner Task Force
Education Commission of the States
Bilingual/ESL Issue Page
National Conference of State Legislatures
Bilingual Education
National Alliance for Bilingual Education
Homepage
Portraits of Success
Center for Applied Linguistics
Homepage
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
Homepage
Center for Equal Opportunity
Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development
Bilingual Education
Council of Chief State School Officers
Assessing Limited English Proficient Students
University of California at Santa Barbara
Linguistic Minority Research Institute
University of Southern California
Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
Iowa State University
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
Intercultural Development Research Association
IDRA Homepage
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Bilingual Education
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
TESOL Homepage
New Jersey Department of Education
English Language Learners in the Mainstream
RESEARCH & REPORTS
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Teaching Strategies
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TEACHING STRATEGIES
Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners: Research-Based Recommendations for Instruction and Academic Interventions [K-12]
Center on Instruction, February 2007
Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners: Research-Based Recommendations for Serving Adolescent Newcomers [6-12]
Center on Instruction, February 2007
Effective Reading Programs For English Language Learners
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At
Risk, December 2003
Development and Maintenance of Two-Way Immersion Programs:
Advice from Practitioners
Center for Applied Linguistics, March 2001
The ABCs of English Immersion: A Teacher's Guide
Center for Equal Opportunity, January 2001
Gender and English Language Learners
Case studies published by Teachers of English to Speakers of
Other Languages
A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority
Students' Long-Term Academic Achievement
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
Broadening the Base: School/Community Partnerships Serving
Language Minority Students At Risk
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence, 2000
Upscaling for Transition: Instructional and Schoolwide Factors
to Support Latino Students' Transition from Spanish to English
Instruction
Publications from Project 1.5, Center for Research on
Education, Diversity & Excellence
Teaching Secondary Language Minority Students
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence,
October 1999
Teaching Language Minority Students in Elementary Schools
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence,
December 1998
Successful Transition into Mainstream English: Effective
Strategies for Studying English
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence, 1999
ASSESSMENT
Caught in the Middle: Arizona's English Language Learners and the High School Exit Exam
Center on Education Policy, November 2007
Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners: Research-Based Recommendations for the Use of Accommodations in Large-Scale Assessments [K-12]
Center on Instruction, February 2007
Improving Assessment and Accountability for English Language
Learners in the No Child Left Behind Act
National Council of La Raza, March 2006
Assessment Reform, Equity, and English Language Learners: An
Annotated Bibliography
Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown
University, 1998
State and District Assessments as an Avenue to Equity and
Excellence for English Language Learners with Disabilities
National Center on Educational Outcomes, September 2001
The Effects of Accommodations on the Assessment of LEP
Students in NAEP
Testing English Language Learners: A Sampler of Student
Responses to Science and Mathematics Test Items
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2001
Bilingual Students and the MCAS: Some Bright Spots in the Gloom
Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development,
August 2000
A Sociocultural Approach to Non-Discriminatory Assessment for
Exceptional Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
By S.R. Kline, Center for Research on Education, Diversity &
Excellence, 1999
OTHER
Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent English Language Learners NEW!
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
English Language Learners' Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act NEW!
Center on Education Policy, June 2007
School and Parent Interaction by Household Language and Poverty Status: 2002-03
National Center for Education Statistics, September 2006
The New Demography of America's Schools: Immigration and the
No Child Left Behind Act
The Urban Institute, September 2005
Biennial Evaluation Report to Congress on the Implementation
of the State Formula Grant Program: English Language
Acquisition, Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement Act
U.S. Department of Education, March 2005
English Language Learner Students in U.S. Public Schools: 1994
and 2000
National Center for Education Statistics, August 2004
Language Minorities and Their Educational and Labor Market
Indicators - Recent Trends
National Center for Education Statistics, June 2004
A Look at the Progress of English Learner Students
California Legislative Analyst's Office, February 2004
Immigrant Students, Urban High Schools: The Challenge Continues
By Lucy Hood, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2003
A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority
Students' Long-Term Academic Achievement
Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence,
2002
Educating English Language Learners in the Nation's Urban
Schools
Council of the Great City Schools, October 2001
An Overview of the Preparation and Certification of Teachers
Working with Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, June 2001
Meeting the Needs of Students with Limited English Proficiency
U.S. General Accounting Office, February 2001
Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S.
Secondary Schools
Talent and Diversity: The Emerging World of Limited English
Proficient Students in Gifted Education
U.S. Department of Education, August 1998
Children of Immigrants: A Statistical Profile
National Center for Children in Poverty, September 2002
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATION [Top]
Archived Legislation
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