New Pew Center Reseach Report Out….

on English Language Learner students and performance in the classroom. The report only looks at five states that do have the highest amounts of ELL students.

The findings in this report show that if ELL students are isolated in a low income school the achievement gap does not go down at all for the ELL students.

In one example they give they say that in Florida for eighth grade math ELL students in a school that meets the minimum 30% of students in the school as white, the ELL students have a 30% passing rate. If the school does not meet the 30% white threshold only 10% pass.