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Archuleta, Helen; Lucas, Michelle – Online Submission, 2021
The purpose of this report is to provide information about the academic performance of emergent bilingual students in the Austin Independent School District (AISD). This document summarizes performance on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests, end-of-course (EOC) tests, the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment…
Descriptors: School Districts, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Tyrone Jermaine Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether English as a Second Language (ESL) Hispanic students, attendance at Title I or Non-Title I schools, and percentage of Bilingual/ESL teachers on campus impacted academic performance as measured by standardized tests. With a rapidly expanding Hispanic population in Texas, it was prudent…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Bilingual Teachers
Ariana Hernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2020
English learners are a significant student population in the American public education system that should be considered when proactively addressing the achievement gap in the United States. Fuel by immigration, the number of English learners enrolled in the United States has been growing at a rapid rate compared to their monolingual peers. In this…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English Language Learners, Achievement Gap, Grade 3
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Caldas, Blanca; Heiman, Daniel – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Using testimonios as counterstories, we--a Latina/Indigenous immigrant and white U.S. male--examine our professional trajectories while noting changes that shaped our identities as educators and researchers within a bilingual teacher preparation program. The dual purpose of this paper is: (1) to highlight our struggles as bilingual teacher…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Educators, Hispanic Americans, Professional Identity
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Almaguer, Isela; Esquierdo, Jennifer Joy – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Our nation is characterized by diversity in languages, ethnicities, nationalities, and cultures with projected increases in English learners attending U.S. schools. Consequently, it is imperative that we recognize how to maximize the academic and linguistic assets of our English learner student population. This study compared the performance on…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Education Programs
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Ostorga, Alcione N.; Farruggio, Peter – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Language policies in the U.S., including matters relating to bilingual education, are tangled up with political tensions and ideology. All too often, the dialogue among educators and policymakers about what constitutes best practices for people learning English -- for whom we will use the term emergent bilinguals (EBs) (Garcia, Kleifgen and Falchi…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Education, Teacher Education Programs, Political Issues
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Batista-Morales, Nathaly – Texas Education Review, 2018
As the U.S. teacher shortage continues to worsen, large, urban districts have turned to hiring teachers from abroad, including countries like Spain, Mexico, and the incorporated U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. However, several researchers in the field of have pointed out to the unexamined complexities of hiring Latin American and Spanish teachers…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Workers, Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Differences
Carmen Alicia Martinez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Hispanic college enrollment in the U.S. will surpass 4.4 million students by 2025, far exceeding the growth rate of any other racial or ethnic group. Hence, the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) identified by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) increased to nearly 570 in 2020 and is likely to accelerate…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Díaz, Zulmaris; Garza-Reyna, Gina Lydia – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2019
To support the growing number of English learners (ELs) across the nation, professors in the field of bilingual education are being called to prepare highly effective bilingual teachers who not only have linguistic proficiency in English and Spanish but can also successfully perform in academic settings. As a result, we, two bilingual education…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish, Language Proficiency, College Faculty
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Payne, Katherina A.; Adair, Jennifer Keys; Colegrove, Kiyomi Sanchez Suzuki; Lee, Sunmin; Falkner, Anna; McManus, Molly; Sachdeva, Shubhi – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2020
Traditional conceptions of civic education for young children in the United States tend to focus on student acquisition of patriotic knowledge, that is, identifying flags and leaders, and practicing basic civic skills like voting as decision-making. The "Civic Action and Young Children" study sought to look beyond this narrow vision of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Civics, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education
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Bernstein, Katie A.; Alvarez, Adriana; Chaparro, Sofía; Henderson, Kathryn I. – Language Policy, 2021
In the past 20 years, both school choice policies and dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs have proliferated across the US. This project examines the intersection of the two trends, examining how school choice policies have shaped DLBE at the district, school, and program level, through the eyes of 22 public school administrators in…
Descriptors: School Choice, Neoliberalism, Administrator Attitudes, Equal Education
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González-Carriedo, Ricardo; Bustos, Nancy; Ordóñez, Jorge – Multicultural Perspectives, 2016
Dual-language programs are becoming increasingly popular among educators and the public in general. In these programs, students aim at attaining full proficiency in English and another language while reaching an academic achievement at or above grade level. This article describes a series of pedagogical practices in the context of dual-language…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Bilingual Education, Popular Education, Academic Achievement
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Alvear, Sandra A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
The current study analyzes the relationship between elementary school reading achievement and participation in the following language acquisition programs--transitional bilingual, developmental, two-way bilingual immersion, and English immersion. With a focus on the achievement of Spanish-dominant English learners, the study uses multilevel models…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Bilingual Education, Urban Schools, School Districts
Tabitha Dudley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to discover the pathways and roadblocks that lead to ELLs' writing abilities in fourth grade after transitioning from a bilingual to a general education classroom. This research compared students' data points in Dual Language classes on state assessments and the writing strategies implemented by Dual Language teachers.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, General Education, Grade 4, Writing Ability
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Dorner, Lisa M.; Cervantes-Soon, Claudia G.; Heiman, Daniel; Palmer, Deborah – Language Policy, 2021
Bilingual education as a whole has been gentrifying, as more privileged students replace Transnational Language Learners (TLLs) in bilingual education spaces and policies (Valdez et al. in Educ Policy 30(6):849-883, 2016. https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1177/0895904814556750). We argue this is an extension of coloniality (Mignolo in Local histories/global…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Foreign Policy, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning
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