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Education Week’s Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population provides readers with a nationwide report card on the continual push for K-12 school improvement. In addition, the special focus of this year’s report is how English-language learners are putting schools to the test.

The report is available at http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2009/01/08/index.html .

In conjunction with the release of Quality Counts 2009, the EPE Research Center and Education Week will be hosting a series of online chats and a webinar in which QC '09 Project Director Amy Hightower, EPE Research Center Director Christopher B. Swanson, the report's senior writers, and leading experts in the ELL field will engage in lively, in-depth dialogues about this year's report and critical issues facing ELL education.

Schedule:
* CHAT: Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2 p.m. EST
* WEBINAR: Presentation and Discussion on the Major Findings From QC '09, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m. EST
* CHAT: Jan. 15, 3 p.m. EST – The Future of ELL Education

Participation information can be found on Education Week’s Web site at http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/01/07/qc09_live_events.html .
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