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| Title | New Report: National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth |
| Body | The long-awaited report of the National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth is being released. An Executive Summary of the panels findings is now available at www.cal.org. The full report will be published byLawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., later this spring. This project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and was conducted by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) and SRI International under the leadership of Diane August, who was principal investigator. The panel was appointed in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education to conduct a review of the research on the literacy development of English language learners. The review is particularly important because U.S. schools now serve more than 14 million children nationwide who come from households in which English is not the primary language spoken, and because No Child Left Behindthe federal education lawrequires that federally funded educational programs be supported by research. Various national studies indicate that second-language learners have not fared well in U.S. schools when it comes to reading achievement, and educators are seeking guidance from research. Visit http://www.cal.org/projects/natlitpanel.html to download the full press release and executive summary or to order a copy of the report. |
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| Inputdate | 2006-08-17 13:39:00 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2006-08-17 13:39:00 |
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| Publishdate | 2006-08-21 00:00:00 |
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