ELL Resources Georgia

Georgia schools were home to more than 94,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), as of the 2012-2013 school year. That indicates a 33% increase from the 2002-2003 school year, as per the Migration Policy Institute in 2015. Currently, there are four most common spoken languages by ELLs in Georgia – Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, and Chinese. Georgia: English Language Learner (ELL) Resources … Read More

ELL Resources Kentucky

Kentucky schools were home to more than 94,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), as of the 2012-2013 school year. That indicates a 33% decrease from the 2002-2003 school year, as per the Migration Policy Institute in 2015. Currently, there are five most common spoken languages by ELLs in Kentucky – Spanish, Japanese, Somali, Arabic, and Chinese. Kentucky: English Language Learner (ELL) … Read More

ELL Resources Ohio

Ohio schools were home to more than 45,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), as of the 2012-2013 school year. That indicates a 77% increase from the 2002-2003 school year, as per the Migration Policy Institute in 2015. Currently, there are five most common spoken languages by ELLs in Ohio– Spanish, Japanese, Somali, Arabic, and Chinese. Ohio: English Language Learner (ELL) Resources … Read More

ELL Resources Tennessee

Tennessee schools were home to more than 32,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), as of the 2012-2013 school year. That indicates a 20% increase from the 2002-2003 school year, as per the Migration Policy Institute in 2015. Currently, there are five most common spoken languages by ELLs in Tennessee– Spanish, Kurdish, Somali, Arabic, and Vietnamese. Tennessee: English Language Learner (ELL) Resources … Read More

ELL Resources Arkansas

Arkansas schools were home to more than 34,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), as of the 2012-2013 school year. That indicates a 128% increase from the 2002-2003 school year, as per the Migration Policy Institute in 2015. Currently, there are five most common spoken languages by ELLs in Arkansas– Spanish, Hmong, Marshallese, Arabic, and Vietnamese. Arkansas English Language Learner (ELL) Resources … Read More

ELL Resources Virginia

Virginia schools were home to more than 99,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), as of the 2012-2013 school year. That indicates a 101% increase from the 2002-2003 school year, as per the Migration Policy Institute in 2015. Currently, there are five most common spoken languages by ELLs in Virginia – Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Urdu, and Arabic. Virginia: English Language Learner (ELL) … Read More

ELL Resources California

California schools were home to more than 1,521,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), as of the 2012-2013 school year. That indicates a 4% decrease from the 2002-2003 school year, as per the Migration Policy Institute in 2015. Currently, there are five most common spoken languages by ELLs in California – Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Arabic. California : English Language Learner … Read More

Programs in Two Languages – A Growing Focus in USA

Though speaking a language other than English in schools in the United States has often been considered a defect to be corrected, a trait with little relevance to other students or an impediment to learning, other developed countries typically view the command of two or more languages as practically essential … Read More

What is Multicultural Literature?

The push for multicultural literature was a direct outgrowth of the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, says an article by the University of Texas (UNT) when describing multicultural literature. Although African Americans began the initial push, the movement was rekindled in the 1980s by Latinos, Native Americans … Read More