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| Title | ELL Success in St. Paul |
| Body | From http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1221/p14s01-legn.html 'English language learners' succeed in St. Paul, Minn. Collaboration between classroom teachers and ELL experts has corresponded with rising test scores for nonnative speakers. By Stacy A. Teicher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor December 21, 2006 Making up 40 percent of the public school district, St. Paul's ELLs are doing particularly well compared with other parts of Minnesota and many urban districts in the United States. That has prompted educators from as far away as Alaska and England to come see what's at work here. District officials tout their team-teaching model as one reason they've significantly narrowed the gaps between English language learners (ELLs) and their native English-speaking peers. Such collaborations between classroom teachers and ELL experts have corresponded with a steady rise in test scores for students who collectively speak more than 100 native languages. Nationwide, 5.4 million K-12 students speak limited English, and they urgently need help. Only 4 percent of eighth-grade ELLs scored at or above "proficient" in reading, compared with 32 percent of non-ELLs, according to the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Meanwhile, classrooms are diversifying with the speed of a spinning globe: 25 states saw the number of ELLs more than double from 1993 to 2003. Read the entire article at http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1221/p14s01-legn.html . |
| Source | The Christian Science Monitor |
| Inputdate | 2006-12-23 02:12:48 |
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