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House Republicans unveiled a new budget proposal today that included, among other harmful policies, eliminating funds for Title III, which supports English Language Learners.

You can read about it at Education Week’s article, House GOP Endorses Education Cuts as Talks on Trump’s Budget Begin.

As in the past, some of the most terrible education proposals, including cutting ELL funds, will probably not make it through the budget process.

But it would be nice if the Republicans didn’t always start with such a bad beginning.  What’s the matter with these guys?

     

For several years, I regularly wrote posts for The NY Times Learning Network on teaching English Language Learners.

You can see all of them at ALL MY NY TIMES POSTS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS – LINKED WITH DESCRIPTIONS.

     

Our next book, The Better Teacher’s Toolbox, will be out next month.

You can now pre-order it on Amazon.

And you can see the Table of Contents here.

     

Students Don’t Want to Read? Try Graphic Novels, Teachers Advise is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns.

Graphic novels are excellent for inspiring a love of reading and teaching explicit strategies.

Here are some excerpts:

     

The Education Writers Association just announced the winners and finalists for the best ed reporting for the year.

You can see them all here.

You can access winning articles from previous articles here.