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Dual Language Immersion Playbooks: Policy, Foundational Conditions, Family and Community Engagement, Staffing
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Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2024
High-quality dual language immersion (DLI) programs can be a key lever to provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism. The Dual Language Immersion Playbooks (DLI Playbooks) provide a roadmap for the creation, design and adoption of policies, processes, programs, and practices that state educational agencies (SEAs), local educational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Insights from the Archives: British Development Aid and English Language Teaching
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Crack, Angela M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Britain has funded English language teaching (ELT) initiatives in developing countries for decades, despite changes in government and a series of substantial overhauls in the administration of development aid. This article reveals the relevance of ideational factors in explaining how ELT remained a key part of Britain's aid policy during a period…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Developing Nations
From Segregation to School Finance: The Legal Context for Language Rights in the United States
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Powers, Jeanne M. – Review of Research in Education, 2014
In this chapter, the author reviews the legal trajectory of language rights in public schooling in the United States and how language has been intertwined with other policy issues in court cases aimed at expanding access and equity for minority students: desegregation and school finance. Most of these cases originated in the Southwestern United…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Access to Education, Equal Education
State and Federal Initiative in Support of Foreign Languages and International Studies.
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Edwards, J. David – 1985
Despite the persistent possibility that foreign languages and international studies may become lost in the current federal policy of fiscal restraint, the immediate public policy context for these areas is guardedly optimistic. Recent years have produced increased media attention, growing public support, and professional unity and organization.…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Financial Support
A Roller Coaster Ride in a Thunderstorm: Issues in Language Teacher Education.
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Campbell, Anne – Babel: Australia, 1994
Focuses on the difficulties involved in keeping abreast of changes in Australian language policy and in attempting to guess the next trend in language teacher education. The number of publications indicates strong government support for the concept of language education, a support backed by millions of dollars allocated for this area. There is a…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
TEND 2000: Proceedings of the Technological Education and National Development Conference, "Crossroads of the New Millennium" (2nd, April 8-10, 2000, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).
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Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). – 2000
This document contains a total of 57 welcoming speeches, theme addresses, seminar and workshop papers, and poster sessions that were presented at a conference on technological education and national development. The papers explore the ways technology and technological advances have both necessitated and enabled changes in the way education is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)