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Scott E. Grapin – Educational Researcher, 2024
The field of multilingual learner education has become increasingly complex, with longstanding efforts focused on promoting "access" to multilingual learners being criticized for failing to "transform" systems responsible for these students' marginalization. This essay brings clarity to the complex terrain of equity for…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Equal Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Grapin, Scott E.; Pierson, Ashlyn; González-Howard, María; Ryu, Minjung; Fine, Caitlin; Vogel, Sara – Science Education, 2023
Research in science education with multilingual learners (MLs) has expanded rapidly. This rapid expansion can be situated within a larger dialogue about what it means to provide minoritized students with an equitable education. Whereas some conceptions of equity focus on ensuring all students have access to the knowledge, practices, and language…
Descriptors: Science Education, Multilingualism, STEM Education, Minority Group Students
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Jensen, Bryant; Valdés, Guadalupe – Language and Education, 2021
We identify contributions in this special issue in terms of two essential ways of threading systemic change for language equity in schools: theories/concepts from school governance down to classroom practice, and values/morals from practical realities in classrooms up. We characterize 'language equity' as a sense of belonging and meaningful…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Minority Group Students, Governance
Zein, Subhan, Ed.; Garton, Sue, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
Language teacher education is widely identified as one of the most important areas that needs addressing in order to improve early language instruction, yet research into teacher education for early language teachers remains relatively sparse. This volume responds to this gap by compiling studies with diverse methodological tenets from a wide…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Second Language Learning, Teacher Education, Educational Research
Medina, Tery J. – Center for Education Equity, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, 2018
There is a growing concern in US schools about the over-identification and under-identification of English Learners (ELs) with disabilities (Hoover & Klingner, 2011; Hamayan, Marler, Sanchez Lopez, & Amico, 2007; Artiles & Ortiz, 2002). US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics data (2017) shows that the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Language Impairments
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Brouillette, Liane; Grove, Doung; Hinga, Briana – Journal of School Leadership, 2015
This study looks at the impact of a cost-effective professional development model in which teaching artists helped early elementary teachers master arts-based strategies for boosting the oral language development of English-language learners (ELLs). Teaching artists visited K-2 classrooms for 50 minutes weekly for 28 weeks. Student scores on the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Oral Language
Ganske, Kathy, Ed.; Fisher, Douglas, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2009
Successful students use comprehension skills and strategies throughout the school day. In this timely book, leading scholars present innovative ways to support reading comprehension across content areas and the full K-12 grade range. Chapters provide specific, practical guidance for selecting rewarding texts and promoting engagement and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach