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Download full textBrian Holzman; Camila Cigarroa Kennedy; Tori Thomas; Aimee Chin; Stephanie Potochnick; Kalena Cortes – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
Newcomer programs aim to serve newly arrived immigrant students by providing specialized instruction and nonacademic support beyond what is offered in traditional English learner classrooms. In Houston ISD, Las Americas is a standalone program that serves newcomer students in grades 4-8. Given the growth of newly arrived immigrant students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Skills, Immigrants, English Language Learners
Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Rockoff, Jonah; Wyckoff, James – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2007
Studies have found substantial sorting of teachers across schools, with the schools with the highest proportions of poor, non-white, and low-scoring students having the least qualified teachers as measured by certification, exam performance, and inexperience (Lankford, Loeb and Wyckoff, 2002). Yet, there have been substantial changes in the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Middle Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Poverty
