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Iraqi Refugees Trickle in to the United StatesOct 31, 2008
When I interviewed Iraqi refugee students and parents in Jordan in February, it seemed unlikely that any Iraqis I met would end up in the United States. At that point, the United States had admitted...
Bilingual vs. English-Only? Let's Talk About ImplementationDec 17, 2009
Focusing on the education of English-language learners through a lens of whether bilingual education or English-only instruction is better for such students "sounds like a fairly old way of characterizing the problem," says Kenji Hakuta, an expert on...
ELLs Set to Benefit from Stimulus Funds in an Oregon DistrictDec 16, 2009
The Woodburn School District in Woodburn, Ore., plans to use $275,000 in stimulus funds to provide technology for English-language learners and special education students, according to a story published in the Woodburn Independent this week.
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Does Reading Recovery Work for English-Learners?Dec 16, 2009
The What Works Clearinghouse of the U.S. Department of Education asked whether the tutoring intervention Reading Recovery is effective for English-language learners but didn't reach a conclusion. It identified 13 studies of Reading Recovery used with...
Wyoming Joins the WIDA ConsortiumDec 15, 2009
Wyoming has joined 20 states and the District of Columbia in adopting the English-language-proficiency test of the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment, or WIDA, consortium. Just last month, I reported on this blog that New Mexico had joined...
A Critique of Bilingual Education With AttitudeDec 11, 2009
It's taken me a while to read and digest a critique by Heather Mac Donald of bilingual education in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. Meanwhile, Joanne Jacobs posted a short excerpt from the 10-page essay and titled her post "Banning bilingual ed...
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