John W Young's scientific contributions

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Indiana English learners (ELs) are low-performers on the annual standardized test and they constitute a rapidly growing segment of the school-aged population. Authors of this exploratory study implement descriptive statistics to compare demographic and accountability data of schools serving large EL populations to those of schools serving smaller E...

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... There is also a growing achievement gap between ELLs and students who speak English as their first language (Calderon, Slavin, and Sanchez, 2011). ELLs nationwide, and also specifically in Indiana (Morita-Mullaney, 2014), are underachieving their classmates and not meeting state testing goals for academic achievement and improvement (Calderon et al., 2011;NAEP, 2011;Tanenbaum et al., 2012). This achievement gap tends to widen as students progress into secondary grade levels (USDOE, 2013), leading to higher dropout rates among language minority students (Rubinstein-Avila & Lee, 2014). ...