{"id":12010,"date":"2018-10-31T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=12010"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:48:50","slug":"ell-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/ell-students\/","title":{"rendered":"ELL Students on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of ELL students (English Language Learners) in the United States continues to climb.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Center for Education Statistics<\/a>, the number has risen from 3.8 million students in 2000 to over 4,8 million students in 2015.\u00a0 That represents 9.5% of the student population up from 8.1% in 2000<\/p>\n<p>Here are some facts about the rising ELL population according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2018\/10\/25\/6-facts-about-english-language-learners-in-u-s-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Center<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>California has the highest number ELL with more than 21% of the total student population.\u00a0 Followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/nevada.teachersoftomorrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada<\/a> (17%),. <a href=\"https:\/\/texas.teachersoftomorrow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a> (17%) &#8211; both states where we help place ELL teachers.\u00a0 The lowest is Mississippi (2%), Vermont (2%) and West Virginia (1%).<\/li>\n<li>Spanish is the most common language spoken at home for ELL students<\/li>\n<li>Arabic is the second most common language spoken at home by ELL\u00a0 students in 16 states &#8211; and 24% of ELL students speak Arabic at home in <a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.teachersoftomorrow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cities (14%) are more likely to have ELL students then rural areas (6%)<\/li>\n<li>Most English language learners are in elementary<\/li>\n<li>A majority of public school districts in the US have ELL&#8217;s in high school &#8211; 62%<\/li>\n<li>Most public school students with limited language proficiency are US Citizens (72%)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The problem is that we have more English Language Learners but the number of ELL teachers is not growing as fast creating a huge ELL shortage.<\/p>\n<p>We need more ELL teachers to meet the growing demand in our schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of ELL students (English Language Learners) in the United States continues to climb.\u00a0 According to National Center for Education Statistics, the number has risen from 3.8 million students &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/1C8898C7-119C-4F27-8A1D-E3980465ED72_cx0_cy8_cw0_w1597_n_r1_s.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-13 14:23:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12012,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions\/12012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}