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Achievement Gap
Three innovative and promising program highlighted at session on closing the achievement gap for English Language Learners and other underserved groups. Policy makers reveal that teachers must incorporate both subject and a language and that engagement is key to closing the gap. Focus on three programs that are incorporating innovative solutions to teaching these populations.
Our question: In what ways can innovations for specific populations be used for other populations? How can we learn from the practice of others? In what ways can we reconceptualize how we view problems so that they are opportunities?
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case on English Language Learner (ELL) policy that pit limited-government proponents in Arizona against advocates of bilingual education, researchers, policymakers and education practitioners unveiled Friday some of the best ways to narrow the achievement gap among ELL and other underserved groups during a policy breakfast series at New York University.
Hosted by the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the third session of “Closing the Achievement Gap: Facing the Challenges from Outside the Classroom” zeroed in on three innovative and promising programs.
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