Finding Their Stride: Kindergarten English Learners’ Time to Proficiency in Philadelphia

This study provides evidence on the progress toward English proficiency of students who were classified as English learners in kindergarten. We examine students’ English proficiency upon entering school and the percentage who achieved proficiency within four years.

Publication date: June 2017

Authors: Joshua Lin, Ruth Curran Neild

Working Together to Support English Language Learners: School-Family-Community Engagement

This brief focuses on how family and community engagement can enhance schools’ efforts to improve outcomes for ELLs and highlights specific strategies schools can use to more effectively engage families and communities.

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Publication date: June 2016

Authors: Rosemary Hughes, Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Jeannette Rowland, Joshua Lin

Characteristics of English Language Learners in the School District of Philadelphia

This brief highlights the diversity of the ELL population in three key characteristics that impact schools’ resource needs and program decisions: ELL population concentration, linguistic diversity, and English language proficiency levels.

Publication date: June 2016

Authors: Joshua Lin, Rosemary Hughes, Daniel Long, Dae Kim

Educating English Language Learners: Opportunities for Improved Infrastructure

This brief examines these opportunities for growth and the strategies schools used to mediate them. The purpose of this brief is to share these strategies across schools and with the larger Philadelphia community in order to help schools continue to improve ELL programming.

Publication date: June 2016

Authors: Jeannette Rowland, Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Rosemary Hughes, Joshua Lin

This brief highlights key findings about how Philadelphia public schools were crafting instructional approaches to serve their English learners and creating possibilities for teachers to collaborate to strengthen teaching and learning.

Publication date: June 2016

Authors: Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Jeannette Rowland, Rosemary Hughes, Joshua Lin

Educating English Language Learners: Instructional Approaches and Teacher Collaboration in Philadelphia Public Schools

PERC Director Ruth Curran Neild talks with Bobbi Newman from the Consortium on Policy Research in Education (CPRE) about the study's findings and surprises.

Date: 2017

Podcast about PERC's report on time to proficiency for kindergarten English learners in Philadelphia