Linguistic Diversity

I am a recently retired educator of 35 years. I taught speech/language correction, intellectually disabled students and reading. In addition, I served as the Response to Intervention Coordinator and the Science Technology Engineering Art Math (STEAM) teacher K-6th.

On Thursday, which was the five year anniversary of the enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education released a new report titled “When Equity is Optional”...

The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a report this week that proposes a new federal grant program, the Public Education Opportunity Grants, to make public education more equitable.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Strength in Diversity Act (H.R. 2639), a bill designed to foster the development, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive initiatives that increase racial and economic diversity in schools.