Based on 1980 Census and Immigration and Naturalization Services records, it is estimated that there are 79 million school - age
language minority children in the United States.
She is also a research associate on the National Panel on the Development of Literacy in Language Minority Children and Youth, a panel funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive, evidence - based review of the research literature on the development of literacy
among language minority children and youth.
There were
no language minority children in any of the classrooms of teachers interviewed for the study.
Exclusion factors such as mental retardation, sensory deficits, serious emotional disturbance,
language minority children (where lack of proficiency in English accounts for measured achievement deficits), and lack of opportunity to learn should be considered.