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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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When it comes to struggling schools, school choice is no substitute for systemic change

The Hechinger Report

The school choice option favored by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump isn’t enough to turn around chronically struggling schools. In addition, America’s educators need to redesign state and district systems so that every child has better choices. Invest in instruction. work on laptops during class.

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