ELT World North America

Maryland: Jim D. Rollins had been superintendent of the Springdale public schools in northwest Arkansas for almost a decade when the mostly white community began its dramatic transformation into a booming gateway for immigrant families and their non-English-speaking children. In 1990, the district, with just under 8,000 students, had virtually no English-language learners, or ELLs. [...]

Maryland: Highland Elementary School in Montgomery County, which won a coveted Blue Ribbon yesterday from the Maryland State Department of Education, stands out among public schools in the Maryland suburbs for two reasons, notes the Washington Post. It ranks first among those schools in the number of economically disadvantaged students who perform at advanced levels [...]

Maryland: English-language learners and special-education students fear that assessments will keep them from graduating, reports the Baltimore Sun. Inti Guaman is a senior on the brink of either going off to college or staying behind to get through high school. It all depends on how quickly he is able to soak up vocabulary words so [...]