Language Minority Students

Research related to effective educational policies and practices for language minority students (English language learners).

The Arizona Home Language Survey and the Identification of Students for ELL Services

Part 7 of the Arizona Educational Equity Project. Analyses of data from two Arizona school districts clearly show that use of a single home language survey question will under-identify ELLs.

Assessment of Young English Language Learners in Arizona: Questioning the Validity of the State Measure of English Proficiency

Part 9 of the Arizona Educational Equity Project. The present assessment policy is likely denying services ELLs need and violating the rights of these students to an equal educational opportunity.

The Students We Share: A Binational Conference

Conference agenda for the 2010 The Students We Share - A Binational conference.

Forbidden Language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies

Increasingly, the academic achievement of English language Learners (ELLs) is affecting the academic achievement of American students as a whole Book: Forbidden Languages

The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies

The challenges that face Latino students threaten to undermine the academic accomplishments and economic prospects of the U.S. as a whole. This book examines the educational landscape for Latino students, looks at policies that have failed to support Latino families, and suggests specific policies that can address these problems.

Proposition 227 in California: A Long-Term Appraisal of Its Impact on Language Minority Student Achievement

For almost ten years now, school districts and more importantly English learners have felt the impact of Prop 227’s policy change. A number of research reports have attempted to analyze the impact of Prop 227 with varying methods and findings. In most cases, the reports relied on achievement data that straddled three different standardized tests, the Stanford-9 Achievement Test (SAT-9), the California Achievement Tests, Sixth Edition Survey (CAT-6), and the California Standards Test (CST). This study uses five years of CST data to examine Prop 227’s impact on English learner achievement.

The Dropout Crisis in the Northwest: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in All Communities with Special Focus on American Indian and Alaska Native Students

On May 30, 2008, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles organized its seventh conference calling attention to our nation's graduation and dropout crisis. "The Dropout Crisis in the Northwest: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in All Communities with Special Focus on American Indian and Alaskan Native Students" was held for the first time in the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington in Seattle. The purpose of the conference was to galvanize regional and local efforts to confront the school dropout crisis and to generate an ongoing national conversation about the policy changes needed in order for schools and communities to ensure that every student receives the educational opportunities leading to successful high school graduation and beyond.