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A Common Wish Amongst Our Children
My studying abroad experience started five years ago. Five long, sometimes short years, depending on my challenges, studying the Spanish language and all its...
Why UDL Matters for English Language Learners
In 1922, my grandmother moved from Trois-Rivières, a city in Quebec, Canada, at the age of eleven. Speaking only French, and traveling with her...
Filling the Achievement Gap through Multigenerational Learning
There is a crack in our nation’s foundation. Although it is historically referred to as the achievement gap, today we more accurately call this...
Study Reveals Misconceptions about English Learners
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students who began kindergarten as English learners (ELs), on average, progressed to eighth grade with academic achievement similar to or...
A Futile War
The War on Drugs
In 1998, the United Nations decided that it was going to eradicate drugs from planet Earth by 2008. The project was...
Urge Congress to #FundLibraries
For a fourth consecutive year, the White House budget proposal for FY21 eliminates direct federal funding for libraries.
The majority of this funding is provided...
From Deficit-Based to Assets-Based: Breaking Down the Wall One Essential Shift at a Time
This is part two of our series Breaking Down the Wall. View Part 1 here.
Dan Alpert: Debbie and Diane, tell us more about the...
Analysis of State Funding for English Learners
The Education Commission of
the States (ECS), an interstate compact on U.S. education policy, has
released a new analysis of how states allocate funding for English...
Testing in Place
In 2017, California Assembly Bill (AB) 705, by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, was drafted to eliminate placement bias and grant greater access for students in...
Free Workshops for Bilingual Parents in California
In February, Californians Together will be hosting two free workshops for Spanish-speaking parents, community members, and parent organizers of English learners. The workshops are...
School Climate Changes EL Success Rates
Ohio’s Cleveland Partnership for English Learner Success—an alliance of Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s (CMSD’s) Multilingual Multicultural Education Office, the research office, and researchers from...
California Receives $37.5 Million Literacy Grant
In November, the California Department of Education (CDE) was awarded a $37.5 million federal Comprehensive Literacy State Development grant which will allow for the...
