Tag: English Language Learners
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Charting a Path Forward for English-Learning Students
By Mario Koran Even though one in four school children in California are learning English, most school districts are still scratching their heads over how to best help these students. That’s the gist of a new report from Education Trust-West, an education research and advocacy organization based in Oakland. The central question for school districts…
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Superintendent Forced Into Contradiction on English-Learners
By Scott Lewis At about the same time that San Diego Unified School District leaders were scrambling to patch together a budget and throwing the future of their English-language learners program into upheaval, they were pleading with the state of California to kill Thrive Public School. Thrive is an elementary charter school trying to get…
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What the School Budget Means for English Learners at Hoover – and Everywhere Else
By Mario Koran Parents at Hoover High don’t care why the only teacher at the school assigned specifically to help English learners is going away next year. They care about the impact: They don’t want their kids to be mediocre. Hoover’s new principal, Joe Austin, had only been on the job a couple of months…
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Early English Language Learners Excel Academically, Study Finds
By Brooke Binkowski Students who learn English as a second language by fifth grade are among the top performers throughout their academic career. That is the conclusion of a study released this week by the Public Policy Institute of California. The authors of the study looked at how well English language learners do in school…
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New Classes Target Students Who Struggle to Master English
By Kyla Calvert About a quarter of California’s public schools students are learning English as a second language. But by middle and high school more than half of those students have not mastered English. Like many long-term English learners, Desiree Vauve was born here. But she hasn’t spent all of her school years in San…