Five-Year Study of Proposition 227 Finds No Conclusive Evidence Favoring...

PR Newswire;  February 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......instructional model for educating English learners, such as full English immersion or...is more effective for California's English learners than another, according to a five...Proposition 227 on the Education of English Learners, K-12, was conducted for the California...

Five-Year Study of California's Proposition 227 Finds No Conclusive...

AScribe Law News Service;  February 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......instructional model for educating English learners, such as full English immersion or...is more effective for California's English learners than another, according to a five...Proposition 227 on the Education of English Learners, K-12, was conducted for the California...

Study Finds Widespread Segregation of California's English Learners

La Prensa San Diego;  August 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ......new study finds that California's English learners-students who are not yet proficient...level, more than half of California's English learners attended just 21 percent of the state...that 80 schools in the state have English learners from more than 20 language backgrounds...

In the aftermath of the storm: English learners in the post-227 era

Bilingual Research Journal;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......of "structured English immersion" that...on California's English learners. However, the numerous...achievement of English learners. Contrary to the...of California's English learners yield little evidence...mandating that English learners be taught in ...

STUDY FINDS WIDESPREAD SEGREGATION OF CALIFORNIA'S ENGLISH LEARNERS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ......new study finds that California's English learners-students who are not yet proficient...level, more than half of California's English learners attended just 21 percent of the state...that 80 schools in the state have English learners from more than 20 language backgrounds...

Exploring the role of teacher quality in predicting reading outcomes for...

Remedial and Special Education;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......instruction provided to first-grade English learners. We report the internal consistency...in the beginning years of school, English learners can learn to read as well in English...Siegel, 2003). In fact, it appears that English learners often outperform their peers in ...

STATE SCHOOLS CHIEF O'CONNELL ANNOUNCES STEADY PERFORMANCE IN PERCENTAGE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......1.3 million students who are English learners. Preliminary results for 2005 show that 47 percent of English learners in California's public schools...see that nearly half of our English learners are scoring at the top proficiency...

Will test scores drop? Move to scrap test for English learners rankles...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  December 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Education, could sink test scores across the suburbs. And...future and prior years' test scores invalid. All third- through...the ACT. In the past, English learners took the Illinois Measure...students were classified as English learners in the 2006-07 school...develop ...

English learners become better earners

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  September 10, 2008 ;     668 words ......to learn that the majority of these English learners who start school with little or no...than two-thirds of the five million English learners in our schools are the second or third...life. Students who begin school as English learners but then become proficient frequently...

Elementary Preservice Teachers' Utilization of English Language...

Multicultural Education;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......instruction to schoolchildren, particularly English learners. English learners face the daunting task of learning the academic...Many of these disengaged, drop-outs are English learners. Who are English learners? An English learner...

English learners get dirty.(Grades 6-12)(Making Science Accessible to...

Curriculum Review;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Making Science Accessible to English Learners: A Guidebook for Teachers (WestEd...and concrete strategies for helping English learners in their classrooms explore science...developmental charts of language skills for English learners, strategies for promoting scientific...

English learners make grade U-46 meets state mark for first time.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  December 1, 2007 ;     245 words ......scale, Elgin Area School District U-46 English learners met language proficiency standards...has required districts prove their English learners are making progress toward speaking...2005-2006 school years. But the 6,700 English learners in the state's second largest school...

English learners fight to keep up with classmates After-school programs...

The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.;  October 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......quarter of the state's students are "English learners,' and in many area school districts...reaches up to half the enrollment. English learners, who include immigrants and children...those tests, regardless of how many English learners they have. "School is conducted in...

Let's not lower the bar for English learners

Courier News (Elgin, IL);  October 27, 2008 ;     517 words ......for everyone, including so-called English learners. No excuses. No exceptions. It's a...County public schools are classified as English learners, up from nearly 116,000 two years...claim the growth in the number of English learners makes it nearly impossible to meet...

English learners' test results climb

Whittier Daily News;  February 9, 2005 ;     516 words ......was taken by more than 1.3 million English learners throughout the state, were encouraging...important to measure the progress of English learners over the years, and although CELDT...brought with them, the percent of English learners in a district it all has an impact...