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Direct linkRumberger, Russell W. – University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, 2003
Enrollment of language minority students continues to outpace overall enrollment growth. In the ten-year period from 1991-92 to 2001-02, California's public schools added more than one million students, an increase of 20 percent. In the same period, the number of English learners (ELs) increased by 44 percent and the number of Fluent English…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Minority Group Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
The Growth of California's Linguistic, Racial, and Ethnic Populations, 1986-2013. EL Facts, Number 6
Rumberger, Russell W. – University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, 2005
California's school-age population is becoming more linguistically, racially, and ethnically diverse. Between 1986-87 and 2003-04, the enrollment of linguistic minority students--students from households where a language other than English is regularly spoken--increased 120 percent in California's public schools, or six times as fast as the 19…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Enrollment Trends, Enrollment
