The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education

GW-CEEE's mission is to advance education reform so that all students achieve high standards. GW-CEEE provides evidence-based technical assistance and professional development and conducts research and evaluation studies for state education agencies, local education agencies, and various offices of the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate education reform and school improvement initiatives. More...

Highlights

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners” The Working Group on ELL Policy. The primary purpose of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to stimulate economic recovery. But ARRA also provides an extraordinary opportunity to improve educational outcomes for children most in need. English language learners (ELLs) are a very large, rapidly growing, and currently under-served population who stand to benefit greatly from the attention and resources provided by ARRA. More...

Resources on Accommodating ELLs: GW-CEEE updated its resources on ELL accommodations to include a Guide for SEAs to use when refining state assessment policies for accommodating ELLs, two studies (a descriptive study of state policies and a best practices study on the issue of accommodations), links to current state assessment policies for accommodating ELLs, featured resources from state Web sites, and training resources. More...

Ensuring Accommodations Used in Content Assessments Are Responsive to English Language Learners: GW-CEEE's new article in The Reading Teacher May 2009 by Lynn Shafer Willner, Senior Research Scientist, Charlene Rivera, Research Professor and Executive Director, and Barbara D. Acosta, Senior Research Scientist; discusses how accommodations help ensure ELLs are meaningfully included in state assessments, what accommodations are and how they work, what school staff need to know about accommodating ELLs, and more.

The Mid-Atlantic Equity Center is having a dropout prevention Webinar, Beyond the Indicators: An Integrated School-Level Approach to Dropout Prevention on June 15, 2009, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT, presented by Douglas Mac Iver and Martha Mac Iver of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University.

Featured Projects

The Mid-Atlantic Equity Center (MAEC) - October 2008, GW-CEEE was awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to operate the Mid-Atlantic Equity Assistance Center to serve Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Academic Language Project: This 26-month investigation for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will describe the academic language demands of state content standards for algebra and biology; and develop frameworks, tools and guidance that can be used to make explicit the foundational academic language that is difficult for English language learners, and that is required to pursue higher-level courses in mathematics and science, gatekeeper courses for higher education.

The Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center (MACC) is one of 16 Regional Comprehensive Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support state education agencies to enable them to address the differentiated needs of low-performing schools and districts as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). MACC serves state education agencies in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

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