Expanded Learning Time for ELL's

Several schools are restructuring and expanding the school day for ELL's to help them catch up to their schoolmates. By kindergarten, ELL's are 5,000-7,000 vocabulary words behind and by high school that deficit may be as high as 50,000 words. A pilot program in Massachusetts has extended the school year by 300 hours as they move from bilingual education to English immersion. The full report is available here: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/12/ell_report.html

Preparing to serve ELL students: IES REL report

Preparing to Serve English Language Learner Students: School Districts with Emerging English Language Learner Communities: "This report aims to help school districts deal with the challenges of newly enrolling or rapidly increasing English language learner students by offering background information and sharing the experiences of districts that have addressed similar challenges in providing services and infrastructure to support the success of English language learner students."