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56.032 - Research to Action: Equity and Opportunity for Immigrant English Learners in High Schools

Sun, April 30, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Third Floor, Bonham A

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Decades of education reform focused on raising standards have failed to improve graduation rates of immigrant adolescents who first enter US schools at the secondary level. Under pressure from federal educational policies to graduate students in four years as English proficient and college-ready, decision-makers often ignore research and effective innovation, choosing instead traditional ELL approaches that separate language learning from content. Drawing on current field-based research in districts and high schools that have shown evidence of promise in serving ELLs, this symposium will explore ways in which schools’ attention to immigrant adolescents’ combined linguistic, academic, cultural and non-cognitive development can lead to the design of secondary programs in which equal opportunity and access can lead to ELLs overall success.

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