Krashen’s insistence that a sheltered classroom consists…

“Another factor in the success of French immersion, Krashen postulated, was the exclusion of native-French-speaking students. The linguistic composition of the classroom, restricted to…

— James Crawford

“sheltered classes are for intermediate [language learners], not beginners.” The reason should be obvious: “It is extremely difficult to teach subject matter to those…

— James Crawford

“item 5. It is also beyond the scope of the Standards to define the full range of supports appropriate for English language learners and…

— Terry Marselle

“The county had reduced high-school transportation, eliminated all middle school sports, and was seeking $77 million more from the state for the year’s English…

— Jared Taylor

Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through…

— Jared Polis

“tests are constructed and normed on native English speakers and may not provide valid inferences about the achievement of English Language Learners. Psychometric”

— Terry Marselle

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

— H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will…

— Ioannes Amos Commenius

“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

— Nicholas Sparks

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

— Donald Miller

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

— Henry Giroux

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez