English Learner Policymaking In New And Established Immigrant Destinations
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English Learner Policymaking In New And Established Immigrant Destinations
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Author : Leslie Gautsch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
English Learner Policymaking In New And Established Immigrant Destinations written by Leslie Gautsch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
This dissertation investigated state-level English Learner (EL) policymaking in new and established immigrant destinations in the United States. The study aimed to understand the technical, normative, and political forces that shaped state EL policymaking and how these forces were negotiated within state education agencies across different state contexts. The research employed a multiple case study design and drew on interviews with 50 state policy actors, state policy documents, and archival records. The findings identified key state policy actors and educational priorities in new and established immigrant destinations, and factors that enabled or constrained the prioritization of ELs within state policymaking. In new immigrant destination states, factors that enabled or constrained EL prioritization included limited EL-specific staff at the State Education Agency, a focus on "all students," funding allocation, inclusion and influence in SEA decision-making, awareness of SEA staff about EL content, and deficit attitudes towards ELs. In established immigrant destinations, enabling factors included increased staffing and supportive SEA leadership, while constraining factors encompassed SEA awareness and technical knowledge about ELs, deficit attitudes, funding constraints, and sociopolitical context. The study also examined power dynamics among state policy actors and the impact of partisan politics on EL policymaking. A central aspect of the discussion involved understanding the significant sway that key stakeholders, such as state governors and EL advocacy organizations, held over states' educational agendas. As the research delved into different political environments, it uncovered unique challenges: in progressive contexts, the study revealed misconceptions about ELs and the repercussions of neoliberal politics, whereas conservative settings exposed negative attitudes towards ELs and immigrants, along with concerns surrounding bilingual education. The research also addressed immigration politics and the adverse effects on state EL policymaking. The study emphasized the importance of context in examining the influence of technical, normative, and political factors on state EL policymaking, highlighting the role of historical and contemporary policy context and demographic changes in both new and established immigrant destinations. In summary, this dissertation offered valuable insights for stakeholders working to promote equitable education for English Learners. By elucidating the complexities of state EL policymaking in different immigrant destinations, the study identified key areas for stakeholders to address. These areas include increasing personnel and technical knowledge in SEAs, tackling biases and prejudices in policymaking, acknowledging power dynamics and political influences, fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders, and recognizing past policies' implications. By investing in capacity building, challenging biases, advocating for education leaders, nurturing partnerships, and learning from past experiences, stakeholders could collaboratively create a more equitable educational policy landscape for ELs.
How Classroom Context Impacts The Academic Achievement Of English Learners In A New Immigrant Destination
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Author : Daniela Torre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
How Classroom Context Impacts The Academic Achievement Of English Learners In A New Immigrant Destination written by Daniela Torre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Electronic dissertations categories.
Advocate Or Traditional Bureaucrat
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Author : Grant Edward Rissler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Advocate Or Traditional Bureaucrat written by Grant Edward Rissler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with English language categories.
As recent immigrants seek a productive and dignified life in "new immigrant destinations" that have little historical experience with immigration, public education systems serve a key function in immigrant integration efforts. In a federal system increasingly focused on accountability, a crucial sub-set of education policy and local responsiveness to immigration is English language instruction and services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students and parents. In such contexts, the role that local bureaucrats play, and whether they actively represent the interests of the newfound diversity of community members, are crucial questions if strongly held American ideals of social equity and equal opportunity are to be upheld. This research asks broad questions at the intersection of bureaucratic power, representative bureaucracy and educational policy toward English language learners at the local level. Variations in how school systems in the political bellwether of Virginia responded to a recent policy shock - federal guidance released in January 2015 that reiterated local school system responsibility for providing equal educational access to LEP students and parents' form a unique window into local policy-making. Using a concurrent triangulation mixed methodology that consists of a state-wide survey and interviews with a sub-set of the Title III coordinators who supervise programs for English Language Learners, this research shows Title III coordinators to be unrepresentative in passive terms of the foreign born population but nevertheless to have a strong sense of advocating for English Language Learners. Findings suggest that public service motivation is the key explanatory factor in driving a sense of role advocacy and this in turn drives a greater range of action taking by the coordinator to benefit ELLs. Despite this link between role advocacy and coordinator action, role advocacy is not found to be significant in driving the likelihood or range of system level responsiveness to the letter. Instead, political and demographic factors increase the likelihood of system action but, counter to existing literature, more conservative localities are found to be more likely to have responded to the Dear Colleague Letter. This suggests that a previous reluctance to act in these places may have been dislodged by the letter and points to the importance of change over time in conceptualizing local responsiveness to immigrants
New Immigration Destinations
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Author : Ruth McAreavey
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-06-26
New Immigration Destinations written by Ruth McAreavey and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with Political Science categories.
Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. New Immigration Destinations examines structural forces and individual strategies and behaviour to highlight the opportunities and challenges for ‘new’ destination areas arising from new economic and cultural mobility. Representing a "second wave" in studies of in-migration, this volume examines patterns in "non-traditional" rural and peripheral migration destinations, with a particular case study on Northern Ireland. Indeed, focusing mainly on events in the host society, this book shows how processes of migrant incorporation are complex and rely on multifarious influences including the state, community, individuals and families. Accordingly, the book develops of migration and social integration within rural/peripheral destinations. This subsequently provides clarification of many of the contested concepts including transnationalism; integration, acculturation and assimilation; ‘new’ destinations; and migrants and ethnic minorities. Focusing on the local and the micro with a strong sense of research, social and policy reality, this timely volume critically engages with original theories of migration, thus providing a much fuller conceptual and theoretical understanding that is required in the emerging field of migration studies within a rapidly changing and uncertain world. This book’s interdisciplinary nature will appeal to policymakers, scholars, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of disciplines including Sociology (Race and Ethnic Studies), Human Geography (Migration, Demography), Political Economy and Community Development.
Revisiting Education In The New Latino Diaspora
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Author : Edmund Hamann
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Revisiting Education In The New Latino Diaspora written by Edmund Hamann and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Education categories.
For most of US history, most of America’s Latino population has lived in nine states—California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. It follows that most education research that considered the experiences of Latino families with US schools came from these same states. But in the last 30 years Latinos have been resettling across the US, attending schools, and creating new patterns of inter-ethnic interaction in educational settings. Much of this interaction with this New Latino Diaspora has been initially tentative and improvisational, but too often it has left intact the patterns of lower educational success that have prevailed in the traditional Latino diaspora. Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora is an extensive update, with all new material, of the groundbreaking volume Education in the New Latino Diaspora (Ablex Publishing) that these same editors produced in 2002. This volume consciously includes a number of junior scholars (e.g., C. Allen Lynn, Soria Colomer, Amanda Morales, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Adam Sawyer) and more established ones (Frances Contreras, Jason Irizarry, Socorro Herrera, Linda Harklau) as it considers empirical cases from Washington State to Georgia, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Great Plains, where rural, suburban, and urban communities start their second or third decades of responding to a previously unprecedented growth in newcomer Latino populations. With excuses of surprise and improvisational strategies less persuasive as Latino newcomer populations become less new, this volume considers the persistence, the anomie, and pragmatism of Latino newcomers on the one hand, with the variously enlightened, paternalistic, dismissive, and xenophobic responses of educators and education systems on the other. With foci as personal as accounts of growing up as an adoptee in a mixed race family and the testimonio of a ‘successful’ undocumented college graduate to the macro scale of examining state-level education policies and with an age range from early childhood education to the university level, this volume insists that the worlds of education research and migration studies can both gain from considering the educational responses in the last two decades to the ‘newish’ Latino presence in the 41 U.S. states that have not long been the home to large, wellestablished Latino populations, but that now enroll 2.5 million Latino students in K-12 alone. "Timely and compelling, Revisiting Education in the NLD offers new insight into the Latino Diaspora in the US just as the discussions regarding immigration policy, bilingual education, and immigrant rights are gaining steam. Drawing from a variety of perspectives, contributing authors interrogate the very concept of the diaspora. The wide range of research in this volume thoughtfully illustrates the nuanced phenomena and provides rich descriptions of complex situations. No longer a simple question of immigration, the book considers language and legal status in schools, international adoption, teacher preparation, and the relationships between established and relatively new Latino communities in a variety of contexts. Comprised of rich, thoughtful research Revisiting Education provides a fascinating window into the context of Latino reception nationwide. ~ Rebecca M. Callahan, Associate Professor - University of Texas-Austin As the leader of a 10-years-and-counting research study in Mexico that has identified and interviewed transnationally mobile students with prior experience in U.S. schools, I can affirm that in addition to students with backgrounds in California, Arizona, Texas, and Colorado, migration links now join schools in Georgia, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Alabama, etc. to schools in Mexico. For that reason and many others I am excited to see this far-ranging, interdisciplinary, new text that considers policy implementation through lenses as different as teacher preparation, Latino adoption into culturally mixed families, the fate of Latino newcomers in 'low density' districts where there are few like them, and the misuse of Spanish teachers as interpreters. This is an relevant book for American educators and scholars, but also for readers beyond U.S. borders. Hamann, Wortham, Murillo, and their contributors should be celebrated for this fine new collection. ~ Dr. Víctor Zúñiga, Dean of Research and Extension, Universidad de Monterrey
Handbook Of Latinos And Education
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Author : Juan Sánchez Muñoz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-12-16
Handbook Of Latinos And Education written by Juan Sánchez Muñoz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-16 with Education categories.
Providing a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship relevant to educational issues which impact Latinos, this Handbook captures the field at this point in time. Its unique purpose and function is to profile the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary studies and theory, the volume is organized around five themes: history, theory, and methodology policies and politics language and culture teaching and learning resources and information. The Handbook of Latinos and Education is a must-have resource for educational researchers, graduate students, teacher educators, and the broad spectrum of individuals, groups, agencies, organizations and institutions sharing a common interest in and commitment to the educational issues that impact Latinos.
Transforming Schooling For Second Language Learners
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Author : Mariana Pacheco
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Transforming Schooling For Second Language Learners written by Mariana Pacheco and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with Education categories.
The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings. In the following chapters, scholars and researchers identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs, from their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that policies, pedagogies, and/or practices transform schooling as it currently exists for EBs in discernible ways based on their scholarship and research. Drawing on current and seminal research in fields including second language acquisition, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, contributing authors draw on complementary theoretical, methodological, and philosophical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming bi/multilingual and bi/multiliterate in schools and in the United States. In sum, we are deeply committed to asserting hope, possibility, and potential to discussions and discourses about bi/multilingual students. We value the urgency around improving the conditions, experiences, and circumstances in which they are learning languages and academic content. Our aim is to highlight perspectives, conceptualizations, orientations, and ideologies that disrupt and contest legacies of deficit thinking, linguistic purism, language standardization, and racism and the racialization of ethnolinguistic minorities.
Deliberative Policymaking
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Author : Elizabeth Grant
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2024-05-23
Deliberative Policymaking written by Elizabeth Grant and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-23 with Education categories.
An essential read for rethinking and improving how education policy is made and implemented
The Oxford Handbook Of U S Education Law
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-22
The Oxford Handbook Of U S Education Law written by and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-22 with Law categories.
During the mid-to-late 20th Century, education law emerged as a distinct area of practice and scholarship in the United States. Attorneys began to develop specialties representing school districts, students, parents, and teachers, while law schools and colleges of education started to offer courses about the legal regulation of K-12 public schools. The statutory and common law governing schools grew rapidly, and developed in a manner that often treated public schools differently from other governmental entities. Now, law schools and colleges of education regularly offer an education law course. Many states' school administrator certificates require some familiarity with education law. The scholarly field of education law is rich and deep. Attorneys play a key role in education policy, as do state and federal legislatures and regulatory agencies. The issues range from school funding to supporting English learners; from racial equality to teachers' labor laws; from student privacy to school choice. Addressing those issues and more, The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of K-12 education law in the United States. A number of foundational chapters present a synthesis of general areas of law for those who seek an introduction. Dozens of other chapters build on those foundations, diving into various topics in a nuanced, yet accessible, way, creating value for those who seek to deepen or reframe their knowledge about a specific issue. Throughout the volume and especially in the last section, the authors also look to the future and thus help shape the direction of the field.
Impact Of Illegal Immigration On Public Benefit Programs And The American Labor Force
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Impact Of Illegal Immigration On Public Benefit Programs And The American Labor Force written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.