Tag: education
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Why Bilingualism? A Policy Framework for Expanding Dual Language Immersion in Texas
Emergent bilinguals (EB) are widely recognized as one of the fastest-growing student populations in the nation’s K-12 schools. Between 2011 and 2024, the number of English learners grew by approximately 20 percent, increasing from about 4.6 million to more than 5.5 million students (National Center for Education Statistics). Today, they represent roughly one in every…
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The Stories Behind the Scores
As ACT scores begin to release today, it calls into question what standardized testing is actually evaluating. Standardized test scores are often treated as objective measures of academic ability, but they also reflect something much larger: economic inequality. Tests like the SAT and ACT are reasonably good measures of academic and general knowledge. The English…
