English learners constitute the most rapidly growing segment of the total prekindergarten through 12th grade public school enrollment—growing 50 percent from 1995 to 2006. However, despite the growing population, English learners are concentrated in a small number of schools with low subject-level achievement stemming from absenteeism, health problems, and lower levels of parent participation.
This whitepaper offers data-driven resources and suggestions on how to help English language learners master and surpass course objectives, while preparing them for lifelong success.
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Too many American children struggle with reading (National Institute for Literacy, 2000). In 2009, 33 percent of US fourth graders scored below the basic level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading test. In 2011, the same assessment showed that fourth-grade readers had made no significant progress since 2009.