The most disadvantaged children in Massachusetts stand to benefit most if the state’s tight cap on charter schools is loosened—a policy decision that will face Bay State voters on Election Day. Charters serving poor kids significantly outperform their district-operated counterparts in Massachusetts, and their effects are strongest for students who need them most—low achievers,...
Month: January 2021
Emergent Bilinguals With Specific Reading Comprehension Deficits: A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. This study centered on emergent bilingual (EB) students with specific reading comprehension deficits (S-RCD), that is, with poor reading comprehension despite solid word identification skills. The participants were 209 students in Grades 2…
English Spelling Performance in Writing Samples Among Spanish-Speaking ELLs
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. The depth of the English orthography makes reading and spelling in English a difficult task; particularly for English language learners (ELLs) whose first language (L1) has a shallow orthography. Mastering spelling in English…