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Poza, Luis E.; Viesca, Kara M. – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
The Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act requires grade-level attainment in literacy in English for students in grades K-3. Its practical outcome, however, has been to pressure schools with bilingual programs to shift their instructional language allocations towards more English in the early grades. Proposed rule revisions debated…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Legislation, Literacy, Primary Education
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Hopewell, Susan; Escamilla, Kathy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2014
Data systems that use monolingual language frameworks to understand the reading achievement of third-grade students provide inadequate information about emerging bilingual (EB) learners. The authors of this research study apply two competing ideologies (parallel monolingualism and holistic bilingualism) to interpret one set of data. Their findings…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement
Holdheide, Lynn R.; Goe, Laura; Croft, Andrew; Reschly, Daniel J. – National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2010
Current emphasis on teacher effectiveness in educational policy poses a challenge for the evaluation of special education teachers and English language learner (ELL) specialists. Most evaluation systems focus on student achievement and teacher practice; however, few systems have the capacity to differentiate among specialty area educators, address…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Special Education Teachers, Educational Policy, Special Education
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Johnson, David Cassels – Applied Linguistics, 2010
Currently, restrictive-language policies seem to threaten bilingual education throughout the USA. Anti-bilingual education initiatives have passed easily in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts, while one was closely defeated in Colorado, and federal education policy has re-invigorated the focus on English education for English language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Research, Applied Linguistics
Center on Education Policy, 2010
In grade 8 (the only grade in which subgroup trends were analyzed by achievement level), Colorado students showed gains in reading at the proficient level for racial/ethnic subgroups, low income students, and boys and girls. There were slight declines or flat trends for almost all subgroups at the advanced level in reading. In math, gains were…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Achievement Gains, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Sosa, Alicia, Ed. – NABE News, 2001
This document contains the 2000-2001 issues of the "NABE News," a magazine about bilingual education. The theme of each issue is: (1) "Back to School: Anti-Bilingual Ballot Initiatives To Affect Thousands of LEP Students"; (2) "Serving Emerging Populations: School Districts Re-Tool To Respond to New Students' Needs";…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education