Common Core, Bilingual and English Language Learners: A Resource for All Educators - Softcover

Provides 130 expert responses to 95 questions regarding ELLs and the Common Core. Topics include sociopolitical context of reform; demographic changes; language for academic purposes; language teaching and learning in content areas; policy, leadership, and advocacy; programs and instruction; family and community involvement; changing roles of ESL educators; planning professional development; and assessment and accountability.

Guadalupe Valdés is a professor at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of Understanding Language, an initiative that explores the role of language in subject-area learning. Kate Menken is an associate professor of linguistics at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and a research fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society at the CUNY Graduate Center. Mariana Castro is the Director of Academic Language and Literacy Initiatives for the WIDA Consortium.