New AEE Issue Brief--Urgent but Overlooked: The Literacy Crisis Among Adolescent English Language Learners

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Forward from  UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute

Urgent but Overlooked: The Literacy Crisis Among Adolescent English Language
Learners

America's secondary schools enroll roughly two million English language
learners (ELLs), students whose proficiency in spoken and/or written
English is not yet strong enough to permit them to succeed in an
English-language classroom setting without extra support. These students
comprise the fastest-growing segment of the middle and high school
population, with enrollments soaring in almost every part of the country.
However, while ELLs may be growing in numbers, in other respects they are
being left behind-as a group, they are among the country's
lowest-performing students, scoring far below the national average on the
reading portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. This
Issue Brief reviews the existing research on literacy instruction for
adolescent ELLs and describes a number of challenges and priorities for
policymakers to consider.

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[Education/English Learners]

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