This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panel—a distinguished group of expert …

Academic English (AE) refers to the language used in school to help students acquire and
use knowledge. This article reviews current literature to determine what is known about the …

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical
concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction …

Sooner or later, as schools move to implement the new Common Core and other
forthcoming standards, almost every teacher in the United States will face the challenge of …

The fifth edition of this bestselling book provides a comprehensive introduction to
bilingualism and bilingual education. In a compact and clear style, its 19 chapters cover all …

The authors examined a model of instruction for English-language learners (ELLs) who
were learning academic English while they tried to meet content standards required by the …

English as a second language (ESL) is meant to provide a meaningful education for
students learning English (ELLs); however, its effects remain largely unexplored. Using …

This review summarizes features of professional development programs that aim to prepare
in-service teachers to improve students' academic language proficiency when teaching …

Most US educational reforms have narrowly focused on how to improve the ways in which
students use language, and most specifically English. But in the last two decades, it is …

The third edition of With Literacy and Justice for All: Rethinking the Social in Language and
Education continues to document Carole Edelsky's long involvement with socially critical …