LINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

May 15, 2008: Annual Conference

Education Week Reports on Findings from UC LMRI's 2008 Annual Conference

NAEP Scores in States That Cut Bilingual Ed. Fuel Concern on ELLs Published Online: May 9, 2008 in Education Week

Preliminary findings from new research suggest that in three states where voters decided to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion as the default method for teaching English-language learners, the new approach may be producing less-than-stellar results.

The studies were commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Linguistic Minority Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara, as well as the University of California’s All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity, or UC ACCORD .

The findings were presented here in California’s capital city during the institute’s Annual Conference on May 2-3 », which focused on “restrictive language policies.”   |   More »

 

Download the 2008 Conference Program (PDF, 8 pgs., 275 KB)

 

May, 2008: New UC LMRI Publications

Resource Needs for English Learners: Getting Down to Policy Recommendations (PDF)   |   More Publications »

A new UC LMRI Policy Report by Patricia Gándara, Julie Maxwell-Jolly, and Russell W. Rumberger. (Update: date of publication and footnote on pg. 17 added)
This document is an extension of the report Resource Needs for California’s English Learners, and is the result of deliberations from several informal meetings and two formal convenings of major stakeholders in the area of English Learner education. Its intent is to suggest a series of policy options, based on data examined in the initial report, that the state might want to consider to strengthen the educational offerings provided to California’s linguistic minority students.

 

 

 

UC LMRI Newsletter Volume 17, Number 2 (PDF)   |   More Newsletters »

Featuring:
• Robert Linquanti (Invited Essay): Assessing Language Proficiency of California's English Learners and What it Means for Accountability

• Dafney Dabach, Gabriel Gutierrez, Carola Matera awarded UC LMRI Dissertation Grants; Ana Zentella and Eduardo Mosqueda awarded UC LMRI Individual Grants

• Spycher, Raley, Pease-Alvarez: Final Grant Report Abstracts

 

 

Ongoing:

• UC LMRI maintains a searchable database » of all the research reports sent out to the lmresearch mailing list. The database allows you to view and search through research reports published by outside sources, related to issues that affect linguistic minorities.