Next Steps for Common Standards and ELLs?

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It will be left up to states to create English-language-proficiency standards to align with the common standards, according to Keith Gayler, the director of standards for the Council of Chief State School Officers, who I interviewed this week.

My article about how the common standards do and don’t take the needs of English-language learners into consideration was just published by edweek.org.

Mary Ann Zehr

Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She was the author of the blog Learning the Language.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Learning the Language blog.

Next Steps for Common Standards and ELLs?

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