Provides 130 expert responses to 95 questions regarding ELLs and the Common Core. Topics include sociopolitical context of reform; demographic changes; language for academic purposes; language teaching and learning in content areas; policy, leadership, and advocacy; programs and instruction; family and community involvement; changing roles of ESL educators; planning professional development; and assessment and accountability.

This unique and timely text was designed to help teachers and school leaders understand how the language for academic success can be distilled into four key uses or high level communicative competencies that every student needs to achieve: Discuss, Argue, Recount, and Explain. These key uses have broad applicability across content areas and can readily serve as a language focus that scaffolds within and across grades or departments. This construct helps simplify the complexity of language in a manner that is accessible to teachers, school leaders, and students.