<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <b class="gmail_sendername">C. Thomas Mason</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:CTM@ctmason.com">CTM@ctmason.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 8:46 PM<br><br> Commentary on Oregon bill limiting ELL instruction<br><br><br><br><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C8vD9pFWERmBjl5I7brQ3lva2Hch1JWe" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#570000;text-decoration:none">The "Two-Sizes-Fits-All" Approach to Bilingual Education Doesn't Work</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ramin Farahmandpur, Truthout:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> An Oregon bill limits English language learners (ELL) instruction to four and seven years, ignoring the instructional needs of linguistically and culturally diverse ELL students. Adopting a "two-sizes-fits-all" approach to English language acquisition ignores what research tells us is optimal for ELL students to achieve English proficiency.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HVH4zBOCA%2B6p81mxyE%2BdYlva2Hch1JWe" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#910000;text-decoration:none">Read the Article</span></b></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/30027-the-two-sizes-fits-all-approach-to-bilingual-education-doesn-t-work" target="_blank">http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/30027-the-two-sizes-fits-all-approach-to-bilingual-education-doesn-t-work</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message.  A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well.  (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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