The Education Alliance at Brown University : Claiming Opportunities

Claiming Opportunities:

A Handbook for Improving Education for English Language Learners Through Comprehensive School Reform

(2003)

Maria Coady, Edmund T. Hamann, Margaret Harrington,
Maria Pacheco, Samboeun Pho, Jane Yedlin

Claiming Opportunities provides information, strategies, and tools that support the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program, as presented in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. The handbook is designed to help administrators in making schools more responsive and responsible for English language learners (ELLs). It presents existing research on both CSR and ELL educational reform and suggests how the two educational improvement efforts can be integrated. Chapters provide guidance for:

Raising the consciousness of school, state and district administrators, policy makers, and school improvement team members about ELL issues in comprehensive school reform;
Helping educators and advocates of ELLs extend their influence from the classroom and the categorical program to the whole school and beyond;
Influencing schools to reform and restructure in ways that are beneficial to their populations of ELLs.

Note: Please see the Companion page for updates and corrections.

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