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English Learner Scores Have Been Stuck for Two Decades. What Will It Take to Change?
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Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were downright insulting. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.“They were very simplified,” she says. “They were like, ‘Show them a picture.’ Not very rigorous at all.”Instead, Gonzales stayed for hours after school translating and developing her own materials for her students. Now as executive director for the English Learners Success Forum, she’s part of the growing push for the creation and adoption of learning materials that are inclusive of multilingual...
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