Immigrants & Dual Language Learners

This report reviews achievement gaps in both reading and math between ELL and non-ELL students in Arizona over the post-Proposition 203 period 2005-2009 and during the first year of implementation of the 4 hour ELD block, 2008-09. The study finds that Arizona has made little to no progress in closing the achievement gap between ELL and non-ELL students during this period.

Assuring that English language learners (ELLs) receive the services to which they have a right requires accurately identifying those students.

In the Horne v. Flores Supreme Court decision of June 25, 2009, the Court wrote that one basis for finding Arizona in compliance with federal law regarding the education of its English learners was that the state had adopted a significantly more effective instructional model for EL students, that being Structured English Immersion (SEI). This paper reviews the extant research on SEI, its definitions, origins, and strategies.

The Arizona English Language Learners Assessment (AZELLA) is used by the Arizona Department of Education to determine which children should receive English support services.

This paper reviews the research on the impact of segregation on Latino and English learner students, including new empirical research conducted in Arizona.

In this study a representative sample of 880 elementary and secondary teachers currently teaching in 33 schools across the state of Arizona were asked about their perceptions of how their ELL students were faring under current instructional policies for ELL students.

Seventy percent of LEP students in kindergarten through fifth grade are enrolled in only 10 percent of the country’s public elementary schools.

Research on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s universal PK program finds that the PK experience enhances the school readiness of young children.