[EDLING:1150] Conference: Early Educational Experiences of Language Minority Children

[Francis M Hult]

http://www.cresst.org/lmc

Early Educational Experiences of Language Minority Children
January 27, 2006 
Sheraton Grand Sacramento, California

The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 
the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the University of California, Davis, 
School of Education, and the University of California Linguistic Minority Research 
Institute (UC-LMRI), are pleased to announce the conference on the Early Educational 
Experiences of Language Minority Children, January 27, 2006, at the Sheraton Grand 
Sacramento, California. 

This conference is the result of a special project on language minority children conducted 
by CRESST, with support from NCES, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The twelve 
reports from this project involved authors from varying disciplinary backgrounds, 
including well-established educational researchers of language minority and other special 
needs students. The reports investigate the educational experiences of language minority 
children in pre-kindergarten to third grade, using existing data from the Early Childhood 
Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) and the National Household 
Education Surveys Program (NHES). This conference is a unique opportunity for the 
exceptional panel of authors to share their findings with other educational researchers 
and practitioners.