Purpose: Best practices recommend promoting the use of the home language and allowing caregivers to choose the language(s) that they want to use with their child who is deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). We examined whether Spanish-speaking caregivers of children who are DHH receive professional recommendations on oral bilingualism that follow best…

Within the current U.S. climate of post-truth politics, systemic barriers threaten to reify racial and linguistic hierarchies. Students and communities are stuck at the intersection of macro language education policies and micro enactments of said policies. Latinx communities notably are experiencing intensified segregation, even in bilingual…

Introduction: We sought to describe how Latina immigrants living in King County coped with the pandemic, including their attitudes and behaviors related to COVID-19, and the impact of the pandemic on their mental health and wellbeing. Method: We conducted surveys by phone with adult Spanish-speaking Latina immigrants (n = 137) in the summer of…

This article analyzes a 'critical race moment' in an ethnographic study to examine intragroup advocacy in a diverse Latinx community. In this moment, a Spanish-language TV newscast used an image of the first author and her young son to report on local Latinx leaders' advocacy to address disparities impacting the broader Latinx community. Informed…

Students who take advanced courses in high school are more likely to enroll and persist in college. This report describes patterns in advanced coursetaking among three groups of students in Washington state: Spanish-speaking students, other language minority students whose primary or home language is not Spanish, and English-only speakers. This…

English learners and students with disabilities both need educational supports to succeed in school. However, the kinds of support these two groups of students need may be different, and not receiving appropriate supports may have negative consequences on student learning (Callahan, 2013; Scott, Boynton Hauerwas, and Brown, 2014). To provide…

Education qualification requirements for early childhood teachers are increasing in many types of federal, state, and community-based early childhood programs. The 2007 reauthorization of Head Start requires all teachers to have associate degrees and 50 percent to have earned a baccalaureate degree in early childhood education by the year 2013. At…

Context: Hispanics in the United States have a higher prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes) and experience more complications for the disease than non-Hispanic whites. Differences in medical management or self-management practices may, in part, explain the relative high risk for diabetes complications among…

Discusses the growth of the Spanish-speaking population served by the North Central Regional Library System (Washington) and the library's response which has included improving Spanish language collections, encouraging staff to learn Spanish, developing bilingual programs for children and families, improving publicity, and using translators. (LRW)

"Peer Tutoring and Response Groups" aims to improve the language and achievement of English language learners by pairing or grouping students to work on a task. The students may be grouped by age or ability (English-only, bilingual, or limited English proficient) or the groups may be mixed. Both peer tutoring pairs and peer response…

This is a report on a research project which developed an evaluative model for a Kindergarten through Grade 2 bilingual education program in the Prosser School District in the state of Washington, a program that had been in operation for three years. The report is divided as follows: (1) background information on the program; (2) a summary of the…

The rationale for using multiple measures to assess language ability in bilingual students is examined. The relationships among the Language Facility Test, teacher judgment, home bilingual usage estimate, and, where possible, standardized achievement tests are investigated, utilizing data from a study of 1800 Washington State students. (Author/GC)

This paper is a description of an Individualized Bilingual Instruction (IBI) program which was nationally validated by the U.S. Department of Education and listed in their directory of "Educational Programs That Work." It provides information on the technology of the IBI program, the type of curriculum selected and how the staff was…

A 1-year, two-state research program attempted to find effective methods to increase the ability of Spanish speaking parents and siblings to cope with the needs of handicapped children and to determine if problems and strategies would differ in the two settings. One group of 33 families was served in a Texas border area; the other 12 families were…

Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of populations resident in the 200 larger school districts in the State of Washington are delineated in this second in a series of three reports. This report is designed to furnish detailed demographic aspects of such data for the State educational programs. To implement this objective, tabular…