Ed Week reports that the cost of providing appropriate language services for English learners in many of Iowa's schools is rising. "According to an analysis by the newspaper, 82 districts last year needed extra money, up from 68 districts five years ago. Districts collected $11.8 million in property taxes in fiscal 2011 for English Language Learner programs. That compares to $6.1 million five years ago." Then comes the inevitable comparison of reading scores across different cohorts of kids that is somehow yoked to the increase in spending. "The percentage of Davenport ELL fourth-graders able to read at grade level fell from 71 percent in 2007 to about 62 percent in 2011. Reading proficiency among Des Moines' ELL fourth-graders increased from 45 percent to 51 percent."
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I am a professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, and director of the Curriculum & Instruction doctoral program. I have served as an associate editor at Child Development, Applied Psycholinguistics, and an editor at Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. I was a bilingual teacher in Detroit, MI and have worked in district, state, and nonprofit settings. I work with bilingual learners from multilingual homes in K-8 settings, thinking about language use and development, cross-linguistic relations, instructional interventions, and teacher practice. I've published a bunch of articles and book chapters, and have developed language and reading curricula. I always work in close collaboration with teachers to facilitate the translation of research to practice.
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