May 26, 2011

Posted by Mary Ann Zehr
President Obama has selected two experts on English-language learners to be among the 15 members of the newly formed President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. I’m headed downtown right now to attend the commission’s first meeting.
The two researchers on the panel who specialize [...]

by Anna Phillips
Walking the hushed halls of Lower East Side Preparatory High School today, you wouldn’t know that hundreds of its students are still busy studying and learning. They just do it very quietly.
A transfer school for older students who aren’t on track to graduate in four years, Lower East [...]

By Mary Ann Zehr on July 15, 2010 9:30 AM | No Comments
Velázquez Press in El Monte, Calif., has published a Spanish and English glossary for math terms that could be a good resource for Spanish speakers either in a bilingual or sheltered English math classroom.
Called the Velázquez Spanish [...]

By Catalina Jaramillo, EDLP, 8 July 2010. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.
Despite an ordinance that went into effect two years ago and guarantees translation services, many immigrants in the city continue to encounter the same problem: language barriers, according to a report released yesterday.
According to the study, [...]

Via Aramica, 7 July 2010.

The Department of Education (DOE) needs to do more to help immigrant students who enter city schools with little prior formal education, according to a new report by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC).
Those students face vast challenges at school and are at [...]