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| Title | Editorial: NCLB, Educational Equity, and English Language Learners |
| Body | from http://www.elladvocates.org/media/NCLB/EdWeek6jun07.html A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights: No Child Left Behind and the growing divide in how educational equity is understood By James Crawford Education Week, June 5, 2007 At the core of today’s debates over school accountability lies a contentious question: Does the federal No Child Left Behind Act represent a historic advance for civil rights, or a giant step backward for the children it purports to help? This argument has divided the civil rights community itself, along with its traditional allies in Congress. Disagreement is especially acute among advocates for English-language learners, known in the shorthand of K-12 education as “ELLs.” Read the entire editorial at http://www.elladvocates.org/media/NCLB/EdWeek6jun07.html . |
| Source | Institute for Language and Education Policy |
| Inputdate | 2007-06-10 10:54:37 |
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