Nonie Lesaux

Increasing opportunities-to-learn for all students in urban, public schools is imperative, especially for students who are English Language Learners (ELLs). ELLs are almost twice as likely as their native English-speaking peers to be retained a grade and/or to dropout of school. This study will evaluate the efficacy of the Academic Language Instruction for all Students (ALIAS) program in urban middle schools. ALIAS is an instructional intervention designed to improve the reading comprehensio...

Given the current interest in national and state initiatives to expand early childhood programming, questions of under what conditions impacts can be sustained, and for whom, are of great practical importance. Among the unanswered questions in the literature are the effects of a uniform curriculum across a large-scale program and how such impacts vary depending on the specific curricula used. The proposed regression discontinuity study addresses this gap in the literature by examining the i...