Ruby Takanishi, co-editor of a new book titled Immigration, Diversity, and Educationtells New America Media that in the Obama administration, “immigrant children are not on anybody’s agenda, except in a negative way.”
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Among students in Los Angeles Unified School District who are classified as English-language learners, 29 percent are not reclassified as fluent in English by the 8th grade.
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The U.S. Department of Education has given a $1.6 million grant to the University of South Florida’s college of education to research how to identify English-language learners and students from low-income families who are gifted
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The American Federation of Teachers has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor that a teacher-recruiting company cheated more than 200 teachers from the Philippines out of thousands of dollars.
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The U.S. Department of Education needs to permit direct communication between state education officials and reviewers during the peer review process for state tests, a report by the General Accountability Office concludes.
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