Browsing by Subject "English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers"
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[English Language Learners]
In the 1974 landmark case Lau v. Nichols, the Supreme Court ruled that the government has an additional responsibility to assist English-learning students above and beyond expectations for traditional students. For the ... -
Hispanic K-12 Students in the United States Public School System: Why are they Disproportionately Underachieving in School?
Hispanic students account for 22% of all people enrolled in school in the United States and, on average, these students are significantly educationally underachieving compared to their white peers in every academic measure. ... -
Standardized Testing in a Non-Standardized World: The Unfairness of High-Stakes Standardized Testing and its Implications for English Language Learners in Texas
This paper aims to determine whether federally mandated standardized tests provide fair equality of opportunity for all students. To assess the effects of high-stakes testing, I researched the performance of English language ...