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How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

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And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. I wish I could thank Esther and tell her how much I have learned from our brief acquaintance.

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Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside a Failing School?

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Carl Brownlee, a former United States Marine officer, is a middle school social studies teacher at Fisher Magnet Upper Academy. My children are being cheated because they are not given the same experiences as their counterparts in other schools, and that’s not fair,” says Brownlee. During the 2015-16 school year, only 0.7

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