This report discusses and examines themes the ways in which Latino adolescents who are grappling with their identity and place in society perceive and engage with formative social settings/institutions, such as school, work, law enforcement, and the ju
This report "examines progress in raising achievement for English language learners…(and) describes the factors that make it difficult to accurately assess what ELLs know and can do."
Within ELLs there is a sub-population known as SIFEs. These students face extensive challenges once they enter schools.
The report provides information on the college readiness of graduating seniors in 2010 who took the ACT in high school. Data included ACT test scores and the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks.
The Difficult Road for Long-Term English Learners, by Kate Menken and Tatyana Kleyn, focuses on ELLs who have attended school in the U.S. for seven years or more.
The report analyzes and investigates the reason for the achievement gap widening in the 1990's and in subsequent years.
The Advisory Committee on Student Finance is required to report and monitor the condition of college access for low and moderate income families to Congress.
This report illustrates a study conducted by the authors in order to determine if a relationship exists between the social competence of Latino kindergarteners and growth in mathematical understanding.
In this article, Suzanne Irujo discusses the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth in the context of her own experience as an ELL teacher.