Mutual Core and ELLs in the News

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This has been an interesting couple of weeks in terms of implementing the Common Core with ELLs – an result that is getting some much needed attending in broader education circles.

Before this calendar week, Lesli Maxwell at Education Calendar week reported on a series of technical reviews past the U.Due south. Department of Education regarding the efforts of the Common Cadre assessment consortia (PARCC and Smarter Balanced) to see the needs of ELLs' and students with disabilities.

According to Lesli, the report states that the two groups demand to "devote more time and attending" to both populations and "focus more sharply on developing examination items that all students, including those who are still learning English language, tin fully access regardless of their level of linguistic communication proficiency."  Lesli notes that PARCC is a piddling scrap further forth in that process, having canonical a "commencement edition" of the accommodations and accessibility policies for ELLs and students with disabilities in June.

In addition, Latino Ed Beat posted today that a new report from the Pedagogy Trust, "Uneven at the Start," examines states' varying degree of training for the Common Core, as well as the impact of the standards on low-income, Latino, and black students using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exams.

Latino Ed Shell includes the following news release excerpt from Education Trust president Katy Haycock:

"…Instead of but pretending that the same corporeality of effort will be required everywhere to become children to the new standards, we need to brand sure that the lessons from states that have improved the most for all groups of children inform implementation work more broadly and ensure that struggling states take the extra help they will need to build the forward momentum that is already nowadays elsewhere."

These reports couldn't come at a better time to continue that momentum going for ELLs.  What are the Mutual Cadre bug regarding ELLs that you'd like to run across examined at the state and national level?

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