Improving Education for English Learners with Special Needs: Promising Practices and Current Challenges

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for English Language Acquisition (OELA), in conjunction with the Council for Great City Schools, hosted a forum on English learners with special needs on May 18, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

Full Agenda

Charlene Green presents at the ELSN Forum

Charlene Green presents at the ELSN Forum

Researchers' Presentations:

 

Diane Rodriguez Luterbach, East Carolina University

School level Capacity

 

Sylvian Linan-Thompson, University of Texas, Austin

Reading Interventions for English Language Learners: The Way Forward

 

Janet Klinger, University of Colorado

Response to Intervention (RTI) for English Language Learners

 

Julie Esparza Brown, Portland State University

The Impact of Native Language versus English-Only Instruction on Cognitive Test Performance