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Direct linkRios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S.; Sabetghadam, Shirin – Language Policy, 2012
Approximately five million English Language Learners (ELLs) attend public schools in the United States. Because the majority of ELLs tend to live in immigrant families, schools become the means to provide ELLs with the English skills necessary to be competent in school and in life. Federal and state policies regarding instructional arrangements…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Planning, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
Download full textGandara, Patricia; Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2010
This paper reviews the research on the impact of segregation on Latino and English Language Learner (ELL) students, including new empirical research conducted in Arizona. It also reviews court decisions regarding students' rights to be integrated with their mainstream peers, and provides data on the increasing segregation of Arizona's Latino and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Rights, English (Second Language), Court Litigation
Gandara, Patricia; Orfield, Gary – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background:This study grew out of a recent Supreme Court case known as "Horne v Flores." The case began in 1992 in Nogales, Arizona when a 4th grade English learner (EL), Miriam Flores, sued the district and the state for failing to provide her (and other EL students) with an appropriate education as guaranteed by the Equal Educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Educational Opportunities, Emotional Development
