Hannah & Suzanne welcome PhD candidate Karen Feagin. Her research specialty is educational language policy and she helps us pull apart the racist turducken of the US education system's policies for students who are English learner classified. Her 3-ish things (*sparkle emojis*) take us through policies and laws at the federal/national level which have had (and continue to have) long-lasting impact on English learner classified students. We also meet a new villain: the No Child Left Behind Act.

  References and Resources

• Look up information about your state's Board of Education
• On Lau v. Nichols (1974) Supreme Court Case 
• On the Every Student Succeeds Act (2015)
• Eve L. Ewing, Ghosts in the Schoolyard
• On the impact of Brown v. Board on Black schools, teachers, and administrators
• Vanessa Siddle Walker, Lost Education of Horace Tate (Note: We cited the incorrect book, Hello, Professor, in the episode.)
• Fact sheet on English learner classified students
• RAND study of dual-language education (demonstrating academic benefits of bilingual education)

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