State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners


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State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners presents three significant studies, each examining a different aspect of states' strategies for including English language learners in state assessments. *an Analysis of State Assessment Policies Regarding Accommodations for English Language Learners; *a Survey and Description of Test Translation Practices; and *an Examination of State Practices for Reporting Participation and Performance of English Language Learners in State Assessments. With the rise in population of English language learners and the subsequent stepped-up legislative focus on this student population over the past decade, states have been challenged to include English language learners in state assessment programs. Until now, the little data available on states' policies and practices for meeting this challenge has been embedded in various reports and professional journals and scattered across the Internet. This volume offers, for the first time, a focused examination of states' assessment policies and practices regarding English language learners. The three studies were supported by OELA, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students. State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners is of interest to researchers and professionals involved with the assessment of English language learners; state- and district-level policy makers; and academics, teacher educators, and graduate students in a number of fields, including educational and psychological assessment, testing and measurement, bilingual education, English as a second language, and second language acquisition.







Science Content Standards for California Public Schools


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Represents the content of science education and includes the essential skills and knowledge students will need to be scientically literate citizens. Includes grade-level specific content for kindergarten through eighth grade, with sixth grade focus on earth science, seventh grade focus on life science, eighth grade focus on physical science. Standards for grades nine through twelve are divided into four content strands: physics, chemistry, biology/life sciences, and earth sciences.




Children's Books in Print


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Rethinking Bilingual Education


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In this collection of articles, teachers bring students' home languages into their classrooms-from powerful bilingual social justice curriculum to strategies for honoring students' languages in schools that do not have bilingual programs. Bilingual educators and advocates share how they work to keep equity at the center and build solidarity between diverse communities. Teachers and students speak to the tragedy of languages loss, but also about inspiring work to defend and expand bilingual programs. Book jacket.




Private Secondary Schools: Traditional Day and Boarding Schools


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Peterson's Private Secondary Schools: Traditional Day and Boarding Schools is everything parents need to find the right day or boarding private secondary school for their child. Readers will find hundreds of school profiles plus links to informative two-page in-depth descriptions written by some of the schools. Helpful information includes the school's area of specialization, setting, affiliation, accreditation, subjects offered, special academic programs, tuition, financial aid, student profile, faculty, academic programs, student life, admission information, contacts, and much more.




Yes I Can


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR I, David Sarpong Kyere was born in Asokore - Koforidua in the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. Attended the Seventh Day Adventist Demonstration School in the same town and then Pope John Secondary School and Junior Seminary in Effiduase. I received my bachelor's degree in the Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology where I majored in Renewable Natural Resources Management. I then came to the University of California, Riverside where I did a post graduate certification program in Global Business Management and Administration. Afterwards I went to the Business Industrial Resource Training Center in Chicago. Currently I am at the Bronx Community College doing a prerequisite for New York Earth Science Teacher Certification, majoring in the Earth Systems and Environmental Science then transferring to City College of New York for MSc in Science Education. I am also the founder of the Jehovah Rapha fellowship, a student organization in my former university in Ghana. I worked with the Jehovah Rapha Foundation, an organization helping people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans and vulnerable Children (OVC's). In this career I partnered with organizations such as the Ghana Aids Commission, The World Vision, and The United State Agency for International Development. I have really come into a lot of contact with children and students and education. My passion is to teach in the high schools. This book "YES I CAN" is designed to help the high school students in their academic, career and social life so they can become scholars and achievers in future . It shows how students can become personal in their studies by having their own timetable, strategies on how to learn, effective means of using their time, planning their future career and destiny and other social issues relevant to their well being.




Guide to Microcomputer Courseware for Bilingual Education


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The guide to courseware for computer-assisted instruction and computer-managed instruction in bilingual education, English as a second language, and second language instruction contains entries from the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education's database and selected courseware for the related areas of special education, vocational education, and adult basic education. Each entry includes: (1) the name/title of the courseware program; (2) the producer's name, address, and telephone number; (3) computer hardware, memory/equipment requirements, software specifications, and courseware format; (4) the language; (5) the type of program or instructional technique; (6) the content area; (7) the grade or proficiency level; and (8) a brief abstract, with external evaluation if available. The courseware is also indexed alphabetically by title, content area, and language. (MSE)