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Halting The Race To The Bottom

Halting the Race to The Bottom- Urgent Intervention for the Improvement of Education of English Language Learners in Massachusetts and Selected Districts.

Final report (pdf format) of the English Language Learners Sub Committee of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education's Committee on the Proficiency Gap. read more ...


Ell Achievement Gap
Governor Patrick signs into Law MA Senate Bill, No. 2247;An Act Relative to the Achievement Gap

This law addresses many issues relating to Ells. This summary of the law as it pertains to Limited English Proficient students has been prepared by Jenni Lopez of META. 

 

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Principal #1 - Thursday, May 06, 2010

MABE Principal #1

Bilingualism and multiculturalism requires explicit policy

 at the district, state, and regional level.

 

Rationale:

Examining current policies at the district, state, and regional level are imperative to ensure educational achievement.  State and regional policies are used to develop district plans of action for specific outcomes. These action plans cover a wide range of issues that affect the instruction, programs, student support services, resource allocation, and practices impacting the education of culturally and linguistically diverse learners (CLD) in a variety of educational settings.  Goals, policies and action plans designed to ensure the effective education of CLD learners need to be tied to relevant research and practices that support bilingualism and multiculturalism. These plans are not static, but are meant to respond to the increasing socio-cultural, racial/ethnic, and linguistic diversity in the educational system.  Language diversity and language learning are often areas about which there is lack of knowledge, erroneously held perceptions, prejudice, errors of classification, and selection of ineffective interventions.   Therefore, in order to ensure equitable educational outcomes, action plans need to be reviewed frequently to respond to changes (i.e., demographic data and local census data), and new challenges.

 


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NABE - Sunday, May 02, 2010

The National Assocation for Bilingual Education is the only national professional organization devoted to representing Bilinugal Learners and Bilingual Education professionals. NABE has affiliates in 25 states which collectively represent more than 20,00 members that include teachers, parents, paraprofessionals, administrators, professor, advocates, researchers and policy makers

 

 

NABE Conference 2011 - Sunday, May 02, 2010

The 40th annual NABE conference

Celerbrating 40 Years of Educational Excellence in Reforming, Renewing and Achieving Equity through Bilingual Education and Bliteracy for All

Morial Concention Center,

New Orleans, Louisiana

Feburary 16-19, 2011

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