Effective Assessment And Instruction For ESL Students In Special Education

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Jim Cummins’ work. Although the book is edited by two editors, each chapter is authored by a professional in the fields of special education and/or teaching English as a second language (ESL). This book is so detail, comprehensive, and relevant this research project, it could be used as a single source of reference. In chapter 9, authored by Wayne H. Holtzman, Jr., examines the issues in the implementation of a graduate level training program for bilingual special education (Willing and Greenberg 137). Holtzman asserts that the implementation of the bilingual special education program in the United States will be a real challenge (145). Consequently, the material in this text was published in 1986, which makes the validity of the information questionable.
However, no in depth research was done on the number of bilingual/special education graduate programs active in the United States in the 21st century, there is no record of an immergence of such programs, which is alarming due to the large amount of immigrants entering the country. Fur...