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One in Ten and Growing: Understanding the Importance of Engaging English Language Learners to Close the Achievement Gap
12/8/2009
Web Seminar

11 am - 12:15 pm PT/ 2-3:15 pm ET

Web Seminar Presented Jointly by Grantmakers for Education and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

One in ten K-12 students in the U.S. is an English Language Learner (ELL)—so successful efforts to close the achievement gap need to address this growing population. Join Margie McHugh of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Professor Kenji Hakuta of Stanford University, Delia Pompa of the National Council of La Raza and moderator Sherece West of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation for the first in a series of programs focused on how ELL issues are affecting education today. Find out which geographic areas are experiencing rapid new growth in their ELL student population, and learn about current educational practices and policy opportunities for improving the educational success of ELL students.

This web seminar is free to GFE and GCIR members and is $40 for eligible non-members.

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