ELL teacher training focus of Reading First inquiry

 Educators and experts across the country who work with English–language learners are moving toward a consensus that the federal Reading First program needs to be refined to become more effective for children acquiring English. Administrators in several big–city districts with large numbers of such students are stepping up their training of teachers on how best to teach second–language learners to read under the No Child Left Behind Act’s flagship reading program, which serves grades K–3. The U.S. Department of Education’s 11–member Reading First Advisory Committee has enough concerns about whether ELLs are getting what they need under the $1 billion–a–year program that it set up a subcommittee to look into the issue last week. Read the article in Education Week online.