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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/05/are_school_turnaround_efforts_.html

Are School Turnaround Efforts Overlooking English-Learners?
By Lesli A. Maxwell
May 1, 2014

The unique learning needs of English-language learners enrolled in low-performing schools that were targeted for dramatic improvements under a federal school turnaround program were largely overlooked, at least in the early phases of implementation, a new evaluation concludes.

In an ongoing review of the Obama administration's $4.6 billion School Improvement Grant program, the Institute of Education Sciences found that the needs of second-language learners received "only moderate or limited attention" in the early-to-midway stages of the schools' turnaround initiatives. None of the schools studied by researchers at IES—the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education—demonstrated that they were addressing ELLs' needs as a strategic part of their turnaround methods.

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