Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/24677

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Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English

Promising Futures

(2017)

Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELs—who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schools—are struggling to meet the requirements for academic success, and their prospects for success in postsecondary education and in the workforce are jeopardized as a result.

Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines how evidence based on research relevant to the development of DLLs/ELs from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related practices that can result in better educational outcomes. This report makes recommendations for policy, practice, and research and data collection focused on addressing the challenges in caring for and educating DLLs/ELs from birth to grade 12.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Board on Science Education; Committee on Fostering School Success for English Learners: Toward New Directions in Policy, Practice, and Research; Ruby Takanishi and Suzanne Le Menestrel, Editors

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24677.

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528 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-45537-4
Ebook: 978-0-309-45540-4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/24677

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xx
Summary	1-14
1 Introduction	15-36
2 Policy Context	37-62
3 The Demography of the English Learner Population	63-106
4 Dual Language Learners: Capacities and Influences on Language Development	107-164
5 Promising and Effective Early Care and Education Practices and Home Visiting Programs for Dual Language Learners	165-214
6 The Development of English Language Proficiency in Grades K-12	215-252
7 Programs for English Learners in Grades Pre-K to 12	253-290
8 Promising and Effective Practices for English Learners in Grades Pre-K to 12	291-336
9 Promising and Effective Practices for Specific Populations of English Learners Grades Pre-K to 12	337-350
10 Dual Language Learners and English Learners with Disabilities	351-400
11 Promising and Effective Practices in Assessment of Dual Language Learners' and English Learners' Educational Progress	401-430
12 Building the Workforce to Educate English Learners	431-470
13 Recommendations for Policy, Practice, and Research	471-486
Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members and Project Staff	487-496
Appendix B: State Requirements for Teacher Certification	497-502
Appendix C: Context of Educating English Learners: English Learners and Title III Teacher Population	503-508

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Toolkit for Practitioners Who Work With Children Grade 5 and Younger

This toolkit, designed for practitioners who work with children in grade 5 and younger, contains PDF downloads of fact sheets, videos, and other free materials.
Contours of the Field: Dual Language Learners and Immigration

The first in a series of posts explaining the NASEM report. This post explores how immigration relates to dual language learners' and English Learners' success at school.
Quiz: What do you know about educating English learners and dual language learners?

Test your knowledge about youth learning English.
Webinar: From Research to Policy: Evidence-Informed Opportunities for Advancing the Needs of Young DLLs in California Education

This webinar, originally shown on GoToMeeting on May 31, 2017, reviewed the key elements of the NASEM consensus study, "Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures," with a focus on early childhood education, and discussed how to incorporate the report into advocacy in California.
Contours of the Field: Dual Language Learners and Early Language Development

The second in a series of posts explaining the NASEM report. This post explores how early language development relates to dual language learners' and English Learners' success at school.
Contours of the Field: Dual Language Learners and Academic Language

The third in a series of posts explaining the NASEM report. This post explores how academic language relates to dual language learners' and English Learners' success at school.
Contours of the Field: Native Languages of Dual Language Learners

The fourth in a series of posts explaining the NASEM report. This post explores how native language relates to dual language learners' and English Learners' success at school.
Contours of the Field: Equitable Representation of English Learners in Special Education

The fifth in a series of posts explaining the NASEM report. This post explores how equitable representation in special education relates to dual language learners' and English Learners' success at school.
Webinar Slides

Slides from the May 31st webinar, "From Research to Policy: Evidence-Informed Opportunities for Advancing the Needs of Young DLLs in California Education."
Contours of the Field: Engaging Parents of English Learners

The sixth in a series of posts explaining the NASEM report. This post explores the practical barriers to family engagement that must be addressed so that school-family communication and engagement improves for EL students.
Additional Written Q&A

Additional Q&A from the May 31st webinar, "From Research to Policy: Evidence-Informed Opportunities for Advancing the Needs of Young DLLs in California Education."
Promising Futures: A Panel Discussion with Dr. Ruby Takanishi, Maria Adams, and Dr. Perla Rodriguez

From the Children's Institute: In our 20th podcast, we sat down with Ruby Takanishi, co-editor of the NASEM report Promising Futures: Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English; Maria Adams, language development specialist for the David Douglas School District; and Perla Rodriguez, principal of Echo Shaw Elementary School to discuss the needs of English learners and dual language learners in our schools, communities, and early learning systems. We learn more about the recommendations to promote the educational success of young English learners included in Promising Futures, and take a look at two Oregon districts leading the way on language development for their students.

Videos

Science Unscrambled: Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English

In this episode of Science Unscrambled, committee chair Ruby Takanishi discusses the findings in the recent DBASSE report "Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English".

Webinar (Part 1 of 2)

Join Ruby Takanishi, Fred Genesee, and Catherine Tamis-LeMonda for part 1 of a 2-part webinar series sponsored by the National Academies Press to learn more about how children become dual language learners and what are the influences on their language development.

Webinar (Part 2 of 2)

This webinar is the second in a 2-part series that focuses on the report Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Practices for Children and Youth. In this webinar, learn more about promising practices for children in early care and education settings, pre-K-grade 12 formal educational system, and promising practices for children and youth who are English learners and have disabilities.

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