Amy Ambelang's List: FED Project

This article shows that reading scores for fourth and eighth grade students held mostly steady last year, with improvements seen in a handful of states and among low-income students. This is important as a future educator because I need to know how to help those groups that have decreasing reading scores as reading ability is linked to other school performance areas, as the article details.

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View an interactive map showing the density of speakers of thirty-seven languages and language groups. Click the map to zoom in on a region. Add or remove county and city names, rivers and lakes, and highways. A bar graph beneath the map provides the actual numbers of speakers by state; for numbers of speakers by zip code, town, city, or county, use the Data Center.

This article details many of the challenges that Bilingual families face in our society. The number of immigrants coming into America has grown steadily, and there are many in the U.S. who refuse to recognize this change. Furthermore, the resistance to adapting to accomodiate the language barriers that many of the immigrants face has been surprising in the strength. For example, this article details the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, which stated that there should be no government worker required to speak in any language other than English.

This article details many of the challenges that ELL students face because of the mandates NCLB put in place in 2001. This article also provides links to resources for teachers and provides suggestions for providing the best possible education for these types of students.

This was a huge study done by several universities as a graduate project to study the differences between ELL students and non ELL as school performance relates in regards to the language barrier. Included in the study are the findings, implications, and suggestions for application in the classroom.

This article details many of the challenges learners of a second language (or ELL students) may face when perciveing their language abilities. It also says what we as educators can do to counteract some of the potential problems that can come from the insecurities.

This position paper is designed to address the knowledge and skills mainstream teachers need to have in order to develop effective curricula that engage English language learners, develop their academic skills, and help them negotiate their identities as bilingual learners. More specifically, this paper addresses the language and literacy needs of these learners as they participate and learn in English-medium classes. NCTE has made clear bilingual students' right to maintain their native languages.