Our philosophy

NHA believes all teachers are teachers of EL students and we are committed to ensuring that EL students have access to high-quality education and instruction. We believe that student learning is first and foremost an adult responsibilty. If a student has not mastered the material we have taught them, then we must adjust our instructional strategies.



Thursday, November 7, 2013

Lau vs. Nichols

I mentioned that I participated in the National Title III Directors meeting last week. After leaving I felt much more knowledgeable on the educational law that supports ELL students. I know many of us skimmed/read/memorized the ELL manual, but just in case you didn't I wanted to touch on one of those landmark educational cases that helped frame what we do today.

Check out this page, especially the link to 'the bilingual education timeline' http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/roots_in_history/bilingual.html
This is a half-page summarizing the Lau vs. Nichols case. This is why we, as ELL teachers, in fact have a job :) So thank you 1974!
http://www-tc.pbs.org/beyondbrown/brownpdfs/launichols.pdf

In summary, Lau v. Nichols states that by simply allowing students access to curriculum does not ensure their quality of treatment.
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