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designation and redesignation of English language learners  

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  • For the past 40 years, educators have used a categorical scheme to label linguistically and culturally diverse students through their years of schooling. Typically, though not uniformly, a three-part system has been institutionalized by states and school districts; namely, those students who (1) are non-English proficient, thus considered English language learners (ELLs), who qualify for language support services; (2) have changed their status to redesignated English language learners, once having attained English language proficiency; or (3) have been deemed English proficient, upon initial entry into a school district, and are able to participate in general education classes without language support. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Designation and Redesignation of English Language Learners]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PBP32NP2-M

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