U.S. Departments of Education and Justice publish new federal guidance on dual language learners

Conor P. Williams, Senior Researcher in the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation, analyses the publication of a series of new documents announced by U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, pertaining to dual language learners and English language learners’ educational opportunities.

“The document covers a host of topics related to public responsibilities for serving DLLs, including how schools should: identify and eventually exit students from formal DLL status, support DLLs’ linguistic and academic growth, engage with DLLs’ families, ensure that DLLs are integrated into classes with monolingual peers, and much more.”

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