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Lack Of National Uniformity In ELL Instruction A Challenge

There’s one area of education that is always ripe for controversy in Arizona, and that’s how to teach English Language Learners. Each state varies tremendously in how it handles these students, but that can be a problem as states move toward more common standards.

Jude Joffe-Block was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2010 to 2017.