SCoE: English as a Second Language

Discusses the shifting landscape surrounding the new Common Core State Standards and its implications for building and enacting teacher expertise.

Presents findings from a rigorous study of the Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) professional development program at WestEd.

Describes the key issues discussed in research literature and current state procedures for the 20 states with the largest English learner populations.

Examines concerns for the ESL-teaching profession in the United States as it enters a new era of educational reform and practice.

Identifies issues in assessment practices used by states and districts to determine initial classification of English learners.

Summarizes critical ideas, findings, concepts, debates and practices that populate the literature on LIEP.

Includes five guidance papers designed to help individual states and multi-state assessment consortia move toward a more common definition of English learner.

Identifies the preparation needs and the changing role of ESL educators in the era of new standards.

Discusses the shifting landscape surrounding the new Common Core Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards and their implications for building and enacting teacher expertise.

Brief is designed to help educators identify English learner students with learning disabilities and determine the best academic placement and services for them.

Case study examined how and why the job club program’s networking and job-search services were successful, and whether they could be improved, expanded, and/or replicated to better serve English learners.

Mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

National Reports on the Development of Education submitted by countries since 1933.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

The Annual Reports and Information group within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produces several reports each year that draw from over 25 surveys by NCES and other government agencies.

Nation's largest professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

Agency of the federal government that establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education.

Responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.

Works nationally to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.