NEW ANALYSIS: "Similar English Learner Students, Different Results: Why do some schools do better?"

California currently educates close to one-third of all the English learners in the nation. But, according to California testing data, schools with similar proportions of low income and Spanish EL students vary by as much as 250 points (on a scale of 200 to 1,000) on their English Learner Academic Performance Index scores. A new study by EdSource, in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University, the American Institutes for Research, and WestEd, seeks to explain that dramatic variation.

This major new analysis of California elementary school performance data has identified four key educational practices associated with higher API scores among English learner students. According to the study released today at the Education Writers Association annual meeting in Los Angeles, schools that engage in all four practices have, on average, the highest academic achievement among English learner students.

The full report, along with a research brief, FAQ, and technical appendices, is now available at EdSource Online:

http://www.edsource.org/pub_abs_el07.cfm