The Difficult Path to Implementing Language Access for ELL Students
The Language Access amendment intends to create accountability provisions for D.C. agencies to fully implement the Language Access Act.
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Candy Crush Community College
New models of community college are offering more flexibility, but is this model addressing the major challenges?
Dual Language Learners Reader Post #10: Preparing Educators to Work with DLLs
How are we preparing teachers to work with dual language learners? Can we improve?
Education Reform’s Blind Spots…And How to Address Them
A semi-unified theory explaining why education reform is running out of steam.
Funding Education for Our Youngest Learners
Less than one third of South Carolina’s low-income children receive publicly subsidized early care and education.
How O’Malley Would Let Private Lenders Back Into Federal Student Loans
Governor Martin O'Malley is proposing to let the same banks kicked out of student lending in 2010 in through the back door.
An Amendment to ECAA to Investigate the Identification of DLLs in Early Childhood
Research suggests that identifying DLLs early can support better linguistic and academic outcomes for them in the long run.
How Could Your Grocery Bill Affect the Price of College?
In an effort to rein in runaway tuition, some states are experimenting with ways to tie the price of college to median wages and inflation.
Improving the Accuracy of Remedial Education
Addressing Bilingual Teacher Shortages in Connecticut
One of Connecticut’s central challenges has been recruiting and retaining qualified teachers for its ELL programs.
ESEA: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
The replace ment of No Child Left Behind is being voted on by the Senate, but it's sunnier title masks the loss of much of the substance.
Did Republicans Just Cut the Pell Grant?
Lawmakers and others in the policy community have been lulled into a sense of complacency about Pell Grant funding.
A Challenge to Popular Wisdom: The Underrepresentation of Minorities in Special Education
Facts in education are often fuzzy and contradictory.That because it depends on the data source.
Dual Language Learners Reader Post #9: How Have NCLB and RTTT Impacted Education for DLLs/ELLs?
The Obama Administration has actively pushed education priorities through various federal policy levers.
Federal Ratings: Dead. Sweetbriar: Alive. Affirmative action: Dying?
Higher Ed Happy Hour Episode 8: Kevin, Andrew, and Libby autopsy the Obama administration's doomed college ratings plan.