They also wanted to show how small schools, like Bronx International, put
language minority students on the college track.
Not exact matches
A five - year quasi-experimental study
on K - 12 bilingual education programs offered to
language -
minority students in U.S. public schools.
And it put a special focus
on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of
students, such as English -
language learners,
students in special education, and poor and
minority children, whose achievement,
on average, trails their peers.
Lost
on many listeners to the Secretary's address was a more fundamental message: Equality of educational opportunity no longer means what it used to;
language -
minority students — native...
Closing the opportunity gap for
Language Minority (LM)
students begins by approaching these
students as emerging bilinguals and building
on the
language strengths they bring to school.
He has conducted extensive research
on alternative forms of bilingual and immersion education for
language minority and
language majority
students.
- The school attended - School year -
Minority status - Eligibility for free or reduced - cost lunch (a proxy for low socioeconomic status)- Date of birth - Assigned teacher - English
language proficiency - Testing exemption status - Test scores
on the annual TAAS exam in each year in which the
student was enrolled in a Texas school
He recently served as a panel member
on the National Academy of Science Report
on the Overrepresentation of
Minority Students in Special Education, and also served as a member of the National Literacy Panel (SRI International and Center for Applied Linguistics) looking at issues in early reading with English
language learners.
Her research focuses
on issues concerning biliteracy,
language and literacy development in bilingual settings, bilingualism, issues of equity in education for
language -
minority students, and bilingual teacher education.
[/ quote] Despite historic and far - reaching legal victories that proclaimed «
language minority students may not be denied access to educational opportunities based
on language or national origin,»
language of instruction continues to be a significant educational roadblock for ELL and immigrant
students (Loes & Saavedra 2010, 4 - 5).
Encourage the use of disaggregated demographic data — such as
on first - generation, low - income, racial / ethnic
minority students; adult
students;
students with second -
language backgrounds; undocumented
students; veterans;
students with disabilities; and foster care, disconnected, and formerly incarcerated youth — to inform the practices and policies that may hold promise for specific groups of
students
This study explores the heterogeneous effects of ESL compared to developmental English
on first generation, second generation, and generation 1.5
students as well as other
language minority subgroups in order to illuminate which
language minority students benefit the most (and the least) from ESL.
Read the research brief
on Teaching Secondary
Language Minority Students (www.crede.ucsc.edu/research/llaa/rb4.shtml) to learn four things teachers should do to support
language development in secondary school learners; for example, how to help Tommy, a 7th grader who has not been in school since he completed 5th grade in his native country.
Furthermore, teacher quality especially affects
minority and economically disadvantaged
students, many of whom are English
language learners (National Commission
on Teaching and America's Future, 1996; Chauncey, 2005).
So we'll continue to get information
on how
student sub-groups — such as
minority populations, dual
language learners, and
students with learning disabilities — are performing, but we aren't tying those tests to harsh consequences for schools and teachers.
Though it should be noted that the difference between Bair's and Mrs. Blake's opinion
on minority student representation is that while Bair simply acknowledges that these
students, especially the Puerto Rican children, will face hardships during their
students careers, Mrs. Blake advocates for the
language accommodation of Puerto Rican
students.
Closing the opportunity gap for
language minority students begins by approaching these
students as emerging bilinguals and building
on the
language strengths they bring to school.
Courts and Kids tells the surprising story of how state courts, based
on the
language in state constitutions, threw out unfair school finance systems around the country and ordered measures to improve the performance of poor and
minority students.
ESSA requires state accountability systems to annually measure five indicators that assess progress toward the state's long - term educational goals, with a particular focus
on certain
student subgroups: those who are economically disadvantaged,
minorities, children with disabilities, and English
language learners.
According to Wanda Hamilton, who oversees staff development for the district, educating faculty and staff
on teaching
language minority students «drives everything.»
On the other hand, this program may be particularly appreciated by gifted and talented
minority language students, since they often do not receive this sort of exposure to the arts in a standard instructional program.
To challenge the labeling of
students from
minority groups as disabled, assessment must focus
on (a) the extent to which children's
language and culture are incorporated into the school program, (b) the extent to which educators collaborate with parents in a shared enterprise, and (c) the extent to which children are encouraged to use both their first and second
languages actively in the classroom to amplify their experiences in interaction with other children and adults.
This attitude is refuted in the film Stand And Deliver, which is based
on a true story about several
minority language students at an inner - city school in Los Angeles.