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Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English-language learners (ELLs) in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure that children of immigrants get extra help with English. They contend that the information requested on the home-language survey that parents are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Identification, Limited English Speaking
Gillespie, Francis P.; And Others – 1982
Data from death records of 1,906 Catholic parishes and other entities in 11 Texas dioceses during January to June 1980 were used to estimate sensitivity of Hispanic population data to various identifications of "Hispanic." Self-identification as Hispanic, as on the 1980 census, appeared unreliable; the Census Bureau was expected to…
Descriptors: Catholics, Census Figures, Church Workers, Data Collection