A study from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research shows that getting bilingual education support to English learners early pays off in the long term. LatinoVoicesWTTW
shows that getting bilingual education support to English learners early pays off in the long term.
“Research shows that it takes between five to seven years to really acquire the academic English that is necessary to be successful in the schools,” said de la Torre. “And in CPS, we have around 21% of the students being classified as English learners, which roughly amounts to 70,000 students, which is a really large number, and the number has been growing over time.”, said the need in Illinois for robust bilingual education support is immense.
“Illinois is one of the few, if not the only, state in the nation that requires English learner services as early as the age of three. So we are the only state that’s systemically serving those kids,” Vonderlack-Navarro continued. “And so we talk a lot about the importance of early childhood. We talk a lot about the growth of English learners. But knowing that Illinois is really a leader and providing these services coupled with this study shows that those services’ work are really important.
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