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Effectively Educating PreK-3rd English Language Learners (ELLs) in Montgomery County Public Schools
Despite rapid growth in its English Language Learner (ELL) population, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has been highly effective in improving outcomes for ELL students across the district. Achievement has increased, and gaps between ELL students and their native English-speaking peers have decreased. MCPS’s effectiveness is intentional. Its approach begins with rigorous diagnostics followed by an aligned PreK-3rd curriculum that is integrated with instruction, and continuous assessment...
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Building Early Learning Leaders: New Jersey's PreK-3rd Leadership Training, A Case Study
A new case study to engage, educate, and support principals and district administrators to be strong leaders for PreK-3rd has been released by Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ). ...
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Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation
A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, written by FCD Senior Advisor Donald J. Hernandez, finds that children who have lived in poverty and are not reading proficiently in 3rd Grade are three times more likely to dropout or fail to graduate from High School than those who have never been poor...
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PreK-3rd: Principals as Crucial Instructional Leaders
Policymakers and educators recognize the critical importance of elementary school principals in leading effective schools to improve student achievement. In a new PreK-3rd Policy to Action Brief, Sara Mead finds that principals are especially crucial in PreK-3rd settings, where instructional leaders must align standards, curriculum, instructional strategies, and assessments between PreK and the elementary grades...
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Children in Immigrant Families: Ensuring Opportunity for Every Child in America
Children in immigrant families account for nearly one-fourth (24 percent) of all children as of 2010, and the vast majority (88 percent) are U.S. citizens. In fact, children of immigrants account for nearly the entire growth in the U.S. child population between 1990 and 2008. This policy brief draws on key indicators from the Foundation for Child Development Child Well-Being Index (CWI), as well as additional data, to highlight both similarities and differences in the circumstances of children in immigrant and native-born families...
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