The Effects of NCLB on ELL students

I chose the article "Promise or Peril? NCLB and the Education of ELL Students" by Cohen, Murray, and Clewell. This article, as well as the reading in our textbook (Ch 6), talks about hows negatively No Child Left behind has effected students who do not speak English in US school systems.

The article discusses how NCLB is implement in high ELL schools, What has been the effect on high-ELL school improvement, and what has been the effect of NCLB on ELL students in high-ELL schools? The article address each of these questions by observing three different districts and there approaches to the problems and how the various solutions work and don't work. This article is long but interesting because it describes different ways to interpret NCLB and ways schools can use it to their advantage to help students.

Part of this article that really stuck out to me was that in our text, the term Limited English Proficient (LEP) was considered abandoned because of its negative connotation and even offensive meaning behind it. The article used this term freely and repeatedly, however it was published in 2007 when this term was perhaps still in circulation with ELL.

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