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Current Research

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Online Research

Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE)

   http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/

CREDE conducts research and development on the achievement of diverse student populations.

The Teaching of Language Arts to Limited English Proficient and English Language Learners: A Resource Guide for All Teachers

  http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/biling/resource/res.html

The New York State Education Department, Office of Bilingual Education (OBE), includes "A Review of Research on Language Literacy for Limited English Proficient/English Language Learners" at http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/biling/resource/CH02.PDF

The Transfer of Skills from Spanish to English: A Study of Young Learners

  http://www.cal.org/pubs/articles/skills-transfer.pdf

This full report from 2002 presents the research findings of August, Calderon, and Carlo from their study of elementary students in El Paso, Boston, and Chicago. The authors "examined how performance on indicators of Spanish reading at the end of second grade predicted English reading performance at the end of the third grade."

Legal Provisions

AskNCELA

  http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/expert/faq/23legal.htm

The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) answers the question, "What legal obligations do schools have to English language learners?"

Federal Legislation and Court Decisions

  http://www.alliance.brown.edu/tdl/policy/pol_rsrc_crtlg.shtml

Legislation and decisions relating to the education of English language learners are listed and linked to full online texts.

Legal Responsibilities of Education Agencies Serving National Origin Language Minority Students

  http://www.maec.org/pdf/lyons.pdf

In this publication that was revised in 1992, Lyons summaries and discusses federal legislation and court decisions impacting English language learners.

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