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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2019/08/a_one-size-fits-all_approach_t.html

A 'One-Size-Fits-All' Approach to English-Learner Education Won't Work. Here's Why
by Corey Mitchell
August 15, 2019

While English-language learners generally lag behind their peers in academic achievement, lumping the students into one group can limit schools' ability to identify their individual strengths and struggles.

Whether they're a newcomer to the United States, a longterm ELL struggling with academic English, or a student who is somewhere in-between, English-learners have diverse academic and linguistic needs—and a new study argues that there are vast differences in what they need and how they perform in school.

Using longitudinal data from a large, urban California school district, the research found that newcomer English-learners and reclassified English-learners take just as many, if not more, advanced academic courses than their native English-speaking peers.

Conversely, the data reveals, longer-term English-learners take fewer advanced academic courses.

Access the full research article at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0162373719867087