Marching in Unison: Florida ESL Teachers and No Child Left Behind

Autor:	Elizabeth Platt, Cindy Naranjo, Sylvia Boynton, Candace Harper
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language No child left behind media_common.quotation_subject Equity (finance) Ell Academic achievement Language and Linguistics Education Comprehensive school Unison Reading (process) Pedagogy Research questions Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	TESOL Quarterly. 41:642-651
ISSN:	1545-7249 0039-8322
DOI:	10.1002/j.1545-7249.2007.tb00097.x
Popis:	■ The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; U.S. Department of Education, 2002a) is dedicated to comprehensive school reform in the United States. NCLB targets the reading and academic achievement of all students and specifically includes English language learners (ELLs), who typically trail their nonminority English proficient peers academically. Although we support the goal of reducing this achievement gap, we problematize the equity assumptions underlying NCLB as well as the standardized implementation and inequitable outcomes of the policy for ELLs. Extending our previous research on educational policy and programs in Florida, we interviewed 52 experienced ESL teachers for their perspectives on NCLB. We framed the study around two research questions
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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