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Kennedy, Barbara – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
This article explores how stakeholders in one Texas school district perceive, experience, and respond to the Spanish bilingual teacher shortage. Interview data from a qualitative case study contributes to the article's vivid portrayal of the teacher shortage and its impact on the elementary education of bilingual Latino school children in Texas.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Spanish Speaking, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence
McGee, Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The case study of bilingual tutors and their impact on the reading comprehension of children whose primary language is not English is fundamental to this dissertation. Recent research has indicated that there is a positive correlation between a tutor having knowledge of the parent language of bilingual children and the children's improvements in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Tutoring, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne, Ed.; Holm, Lars, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2012
"Literacy Practices in Transition" explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Educational Trends
Park, Clara C., Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed.; Rong, Xue Lan, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and examines the patterns of Asian parents'…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Parents, Parent Student Relationship, Asian American Students