Areas of Expertise : English Language Learners
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Adult English as a Second Language
AIR evaluates strategies for teaching adults English, identifies promising programs, and recommends ways to promote effective approaches.
Recent Reports
- Children’s Elementary School Outcomes After Participating in Family Literacy Programs
- Common ELL Terms and Definitions
- Transitioning English Language Learners, Annotated Bibliography
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Recent Projects
English Language Learners
AIR operates a center to address the specific needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) by strengthening the connections between knowledge, practice, and policy development. AIR’s work emphasizes integration of English language learning skills across content areas, providing research to inform policy development around best practices for teaching ELLs, and technical assistance to support such practice. Specific topics include access to preschool, alternative assessments, evaluations of relevant federal and state policies, and analysis of effective strategies to improve English language learning.
Recent Reports
- Understanding Patterns and Precursors of ELL Success Subsequent to Reclassification
- Learning from the Past: Drawing on California’s CLAS Experience to Inform Assessment of the Common Core
- Series Overview (Special Series on the Fresno–Long Beach Learning Partnership)
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Recent Projects
- ELL Center's Technical Assistance Related to the Common Core State Standards
- Technical Assistance to New York State Districts for ELLs to Help Turn Around Low-Achieving Schools
- ELLs and the California Collaborative on District Reform
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Recent Products
Technical Assistance
AIR provides technical assistance to help practitioners translate research into practice and policy that improve their results. AIR’s technical assistance work includes training, support in design and development of new tools and interventions, conducting analyses, assisting with implementation, maintaining resource centers and expert databases, bringing communities of practice together, and many other successful support tools.
Recent Reports
- Technical Assistance Partnership Publishes Three New Issue Briefs in Juvenile Justice Resource Series
- An Organizational Guide to Building Health Services Research Capacity
- Benefits of Systems of Care for Child Welfare
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Recent Projects
- State Health Insurance Assistance Programs
- State Training and Technical Assistance Center (STTAC)
- Safe and Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center
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Recent Products
