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Ackerman, Debra J. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Two consequentially related education policy topics in the United States are kindergarten entry assessments (KEAs) and the growing number of students who are "English learners" (ELs). In this study, I compared the content of, and home language use policies for six state KEAs, all of which were comprised of items from the GOLD®…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, English Language Learners, School Readiness
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Callahan, Rebecca M.; Jiang, Lei; Núñez, Anne-Marie – Educational Policy, 2023
Although current and former English Learner (EL) or "ever-EL" students comprise one of the fastest-growing K-12 populations, we still know relatively little about the factors that influence their college-going. Using Perna's seminal college-going model as a launching point, we propose a policy-driven empirical approach to explore how…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Educational Policy, Public Policy, State Policy