Choose one Supreme Court case or one educational policy pertaining to English language learners (ELLs). In a 500-750 word essay, discuss the effect that this case or policy has had on the education of ELLs. Your essay should address the following questions:

• How has this case or policy helped contribute to the academic success of ELLs?
• How will this case or policy help improve education for ELLs?
• What gaps still exist?

Support your essay with at least three scholarly resources. You will need a reference list with at least three peer reviewed sources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style. An abstract is not required.

There is a rubric for grading the assignment this week. Here is how the rubric is applied to your work.

There are 8 parts to the rubric. The first four are:

Court case or educational policy, Impact on teaching, Contribution to academic success of ELL’s, and Improvements and gaps.

The highest score in this section is a 5 for excellent. To earn a 5 in any of those areas you need to search the GCU library databases for at least 3 peer reviewed sources that you can cite in the presentation of the court case or educational policy that you select. In addition, a well written essay will provide examples to support what you say. An example might be used to illustrate the practical impact on teaching or the academic success of ELL’s or gaps that still remain. The document titled Help with Papers posted in the Add-Ons section under the Resources Tab tells how to locate peer reviewed sources. .com, .org, .net, and .gov documents are not usually peer reviewed.

The second four parts of the rubric are:

organization, research citations, APA format, and writing mechanics.

Again, the highest score is a 5 for excellent. To earn a 5 in any of those for areas you need to use good organization. One way is to simply present what you intend to say in the order listed on the rubric. It also helps to use headings to guide the reader. Most of the APA headings you would use would be level 2, flush left and bold. The sources cited should be in correct APA format for citations in text and on the reference list.

If you select a court case, pages 217-224 of the APA Manual 6^th edition show how to cite court cases and laws passed by the legislature correctly. Court cases and laws passed by Congress have a name and a series of numbers to tell where the original document is located.