A Balancing Act: NCLB’s Renewal, English-Learners
While expressing doubts about whether their concerns will be taken seriously in Congress, some people at a conference for teachers of English-language learners last week spoke at a breakout session about ways they believe the No Child Left Behind Act should be improved to better benefit such students.
It is not a good sign, said James Crawford, the president of the Washington-based Institute for Language and Education Policy, that a subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee scheduled a hearing about the reauthorization of the federal education law and English-language learners for March 23—during the time when more than 6,500 educators convened here for the annual conference of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
The TESOL conference...
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