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  • February 2007: Learning the Language (an EdWeek Blog) Mary Ann Zehr is an assistant editor at Education Week. She has written about the schooling of English-language learners for more than seven years and understands through her own experience of studying Spanish that it takes a long time to learn another language well. Her blog will tackle difficult policy questions, explore learning innovations, and share stories about different cultural groups on her beat.
  • November 29, 2006: [Gary Orfield/Patricia Gandara] "UCLA captures academic plum: Luring Harvard's respected Civil Rights Project west is a coup for the university" Gary Orfield, the project's current director and its co-founder, will be joined as co-director by Patricia Gandara, a UC Davis education professor since 1990 and frequent collaborator in Civil Rights Project research.

    LA Times story by Rebecca Trounson , Times Staff Writer

  • June 2006: The Language of Learning Six special reports that go inside classrooms, parent groups and teacher colleges to show how well California is doing at teaching English to children who are immigrants or the children of immigrants.

    The California Report from KQED radio; series produced by award-winning education reporter Kathryn Baron

  • December 2005: Spanish At School Translates to Suspension Most of the time, 16-year-old Zach Rubio converses in clear, unaccented American teen-speak, a form of English in which the three most common words are "like," "whatever" and "totally." But Zach is also fluent in his dad's native language, Spanish -- and that's what got him suspended from school.

    T.R. Reid in the Washington Post

  • October 2005: 8 Strategies for Middle School Design The middle grades are crucial to captivating and keeping students as lifelong learners. These are the years when students become engaged in critical thinking -- or stop wanting to have anything to do with school.

    August Battaglia and Robin Randall in American School Board Journal (ASBJ.com) (Vol. 192, No. 10)

  • September 1, 2005: Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid Many Americans who live far from our major cities and who have no firsthand knowledge of the realities to be found in urban public schools seem to have the rather vague and general impression that the great extremes of racial isolation that were matters of grave national significance some thirty-five or forty years ago have gradually but steadily diminished in more recent years. The truth, unhappily, is that the trend, for well over a decade now, has been precisely the reverse.

    Jonathan Kozol in Harper's Magazine (v.311, n.1864)

  • August 24, 2005: The Un-Empirical Presidency The administration's propensity to ignore empirical data threatens the search for effective school reforms. The latest case of science snubbed emerged last week and involves the quiet quashing of new findings on the success of bilingual teaching in the nation's classrooms.

    Bruce Fuller in the Los Angeles Times (Op-Ed Page)

  • October 26, 2004: Early Learning Getting Increased Attention Due in part to the current administration's focus on early education, there has been a renewed interest in what we teach children in the preschool and kindergarten years, and how this material should be presented.

    Valerie Strauss in The Washington Post

  • June 14, 2004: Bilingualism's Brain Benefits Bilingual speakers are better able to deal with distractions than those who speak only a single language, and that may help offset age-related declines in mental performance, researchers say.

    Shankar Vedantam in the Washington Post, Science Notebook
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