As federal mandates purport to improve the academic achievement of all students, the achievement gap between White students and their marginalized peers has not closed. The persistency of the gap raises the notion that the ...

This study examines the case of Anita, a Brazilian emergent bilingual, studying and living in the United States. It highlights the critical issue of culturally relevant literacy learning in and out-of-school, focusing in ...

Arabic is gaining ground in U.S. Universities and new Arabic programs have been established. American Students’ registration in Arabic classes has increased rapidly in recent years. Through my participation for several ...

The lives of 1.5 generation Korean American immigrant adolescents are often misunderstood as they are viewed as successful, well adjusting, model students, while in reality they are going through various challenges with ...

This study was an action research study that examined how second grade bilingual children defined “the word and their world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987) during literature discussions; that world is structured by societal, ...

Schooling in these contemporary times is a highly contested issue, launching many reform efforts aimed at improving the state of schools. Amidst growing concerns over the quality of schools, there have been numerous efforts ...

The current study is a qualitative case study that investigated the writing development of seven Chinese-speaking English language learners (ELLs) from kindergarten and 3rd-grade ESL classes in an elementary school in the ...