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Houston Independent School District, 2021
Texas requires school districts to provide specialized linguistic programs (Texas Education Code, Chapter 29, Subchapter B 29.051) to meet the needs of students who are English learners (EL). These programs are intended to facilitate ELs' integration into the regular school curriculum and ensure access to equal educational opportunities. The…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Bilingual Education, Spanish Speaking, Program Effectiveness
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2019
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page sheets on a variety of subjects. The topics for this report on English learners and science achievement include: (1) National Assessment of Education Progress Science Score Comparison for English Learners and Students Who Are Not…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Science Achievement, Grade 4, Grade 8
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2019
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page sheets on a variety of subjects. The topics for this report on dual language learning programs and English learners include: (1) States with Self-Reported Dual Language Programs: SY 2016-17; (2) Languages Used in Dual Language…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Geographic Location
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2016
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what students know about mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, U.S. history, and technology and engineering literacy. This fact sheet reports…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Scores
Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative correlation observed in the raw data is mainly an…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Alonzo, Julie; Gonzalez, Magaly; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2013
In this study, we describe two studies used to select appropriate assessments to measure phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, and fluency in the Spanish language for students receiving literacy instruction in Spanish. We first describe two studies in which we use linear regression and correlations to examine the appropriateness of different…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Spanish, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabets
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Enyeart, Christine; Diehl, Juliet; Hampden-Thompson, Gillian; Scotchmer, Marion – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This Issue Brief describes school-to-home communication practices and opportunities for parent involvement at school as reported by parents of U.S. school-age students from primarily English-and primarily Spanish-speaking households during the 2002-03 school year. Data are drawn from the Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Native Speakers, Parent School Relationship
Moussu, Lucie M. – Online Submission, 2006
The number of learners of English as an international means of communication increases hand in hand with the number of nonnative English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) of English as a Second Language (ESL) and the number of Native English-Speaking ESL teachers (NESTs). At the same time, scholars (Kamhi-Stein, 1999; Liu, 1999; Llurda, 2005) have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Native Speakers, Language Teachers