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Author: Kate Menken Publisher: Multilingual Matters ISBN: 1853599972 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 216
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This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
Author: Kate Menken Publisher: Multilingual Matters ISBN: 1853599972 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
Author: Deborah Meier Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807004596 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 117
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Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country. But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: * How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.
Author: Grace P. McField Publisher: IAP ISBN: 1623964563 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 357
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Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning. The Miseducation of English Learners examines the initial policy impact of Structured English Immersion (SEI), an English-only program mandated for English Learners (ELs) in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts in the United States. The book features analyses of: the legal context and parameters of SEI; research history on SEI; SEI language policy and policy implementation according to situated context; and the educational priorities and legal rights of ELs. The book examines the history of SEI in the educational research literature and as it has been interpreted in the context of the legal requirement for schools to take “appropriate action” to meet the needs of ELs following the historic Lau v. Nichols (1974) court decision. The Miseducation of English Learners also presents and considers the implementation of SEI in comparative contexts from various perspectives including teacher education, the classroom, and legal. In several of the chapters, SEI implementation is examined in concert with other factors that have effected the teaching and progress of ELs such as Senate Bill 2042 (2001) that overhauled the teacher education process in California, and the federal No Child Left Behind legislation (signed into law on January 8, 2002). Moreover, the book provides implications and recommendations for teaching, research, advocacy, and policy change. The Miseducation of English Learners addresses and invites the readers to consider the following key questions: • How “appropriate” is the mandated SEI program for ELs, both in substance and in the one-year duration as specified in the three voter-initiated propositions (Proposition 227, Proposition 203, and Question 2)? • What issues, themes, and patterns can be noted in the implementation of SEI in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts? • Why might the student outcomes not show the desired results in measures such as achievement test scores or dropout rates? • What necessary changes are called for in order to enhance (or in some cases supplant) the SEI programs and services in place for ELs? • Are ELs, parents, and other stakeholders able to thoughtfully select desired and optimal instructional programs, and participate meaningfully in the educational process of language minority students under the SEI mandates?
Author: Wayne E. Wright Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company ISBN: 9781934000366 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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This comprehensive textbook prepares all teachers to teach English languagelearners (ELLs). It is widely used in undergraduate and graduate programs, including:- Elementary and secondary teacher education- Literacy and special education- TESOL and bilingual educationWayne Wright's deep respect for educational practitioners and his passion for Englishlanguage learners' right to a fair and full education are evident in every word he writes. Hisbook and companion website offer a vision and pathway toward fostering dynamic learningcommunities across schools, teacher education programs, and communities to improveeducation for ELLs. The rest is up to us.-Nancy H. Hornberger, University of PennsylvaniaNew to the Third EditionThe textbook and companion website are completely updated while retaining the practicalfeatures of the first and second editions. Readers will find:- New federal regulations, accountability requirements, and flexibility for ELLs under theEvery Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)- A stronger multilingual perspective on ELL education, with attention to new research,theory, and practice on dynamic bilingualism and translanguaging- New research on language, literacy, and content-area instruction for ELLs from theNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine- The integration of new principles by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languagesfor the exemplary teaching of ELLs- New information about the Seal of Biliteracy, now approved by more than 35 states andthe District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781984164162 Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
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Impact of No Child Left Behind on English language learners : hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2007.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 88
Author: Kate Menken
Author: Kate Menken
Author: Deborah Meier
Author: Grace P. McField
Author: Wayne E. Wright
Author: Hend Alghamdy
Author: Joaquim Oliveira
Author: United States. Congress
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education