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Caroline Bartlett
Defaults, Discretion, and Local Capacity: District Leaders’ Accounts of Automatic English Learner Reclassification
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceAutomatic policies, which produce a preferred outcome unless implementers act otherwise, are rare in K-12 education and have been studied almost entirely using quantitative methods. In 2019, Michigan replaced its district-led procedure for reclassifying students out of English learner (EL)… more →
Leveling the Playing Field: Default Policy and its Effects on English Learner Reclassification
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceTags: Poverty, Student supportsReclassification, the process by which English learner (EL) students exit EL classification, often determines ELs’ access to mainstream academic coursework. While existing research finds that many students who demonstrate English proficiency do not reclassify, few studies evaluate policies that… more →