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=The Case for Urgency= - The impact of the No Child Left Behind Act - State concentrations of school-age children of immigrants - Responding to challenges

sn-smith Chapter 2 At the end of the chapter, the author mentioned that good quality instruction for ELLs is a particular challenge. Not only is the job of being a teacher is a hard one, but there is also limited effective teaching strategy research for ELLs even though such research has been increasing since 1997. Personally, I am surprised that there is not enough effective teaching strategy research for ELLs. I also thought the U.S. had the largest population of English language learners, and they would have had plenty of study about teaching ELLs. No matter what the reason for the lack of the ESL teaching resources, I am pretty sure that researchers had started to see the importance of seeking effective teaching strategies for ELLs while the ELL population increased dramatically in recent years.