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Assessing Language Proficiency during Extended School ClosuresThis document provides sample questionnaires across grade bands that are designed to provisionally identify students as English learners (ELs) during the COVID-19-related school closures, which impede the administration of face-to-face screening protocols.28 pagesMay 2020
English Language Learners in America's Great City SchoolsThis report presents the results of a two-year long study to gather data on the fastest-growing demographic group in the nation's schools. It updates most of the data presented in the Council's first-ever study on English language learner (ELL) programs that was released in 2013.164 pagesApril 2019
Raising the Achievement of English Learners in Providence Public SchoolsThe report examines such areas as the district’s vision and goals for ELLs, the number and variety of languages spoken by Providence’s children, achievement levels and English-proficiency rates, graduation rates, identification, registration, and placement processes, ELL access to district curriculum and the quality of that curriculum, program design, teacher assignments, monitoring, parent engagement, professional development, ELLs in special education, data systems, and the like.192 pagesSeptember 2019
Re-envisioning English Language Arts and English Language Development for English Language LearnersRead the Council’s new criteria for determining whether English language arts materials are compatible with college and career standards and appropriate for English language learners.36 pagesMay 2017
A Framework for Re-envisioning Mathematics Instruction for English Language LearnersThe overarching purpose of this document is to define a new vision for mathematics instruction that explicitly attends to the needs of ELLs, addressing the interdependence of language and mathematics.46 pagesDecember 2016
Raising the Achievement of Latino Students and English Language Learners in the Chicago Public SchoolsThe subject of this report is raising academic achievement among English language learners (ELL) and Latino students in the Chicago Public Schools.262 pagesJanuary 2015
English Language Learners in America's Great City Schools: Demographics, Achievement and StaffingThe English Language Learners (ELLs) attending schools in the member districts of the Council account for nearly one-quarter of all ELLs in the nation. This report presents the results of a yearlong effort to compile data on ELL enrollment and programs in Great City school districts.116 pagesMarch 2013
Instructional Materials for English Language Learners in Urban Public SchoolsThe purpose of this report is to examine how district and school-level staff members acquire and use instructional materials for English Language Learners (ELLs). The report also answers questions regarding the preparedness of district and school staff members to ensure that ELLs attain the expectations embodied in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), including factors that practitioners believe are most importantin promoting high ELL achievement23 pagesMarch 2013
