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High School Literacy
Defining High School Literacy Issues | High School Literacy Strategies | Support for ELL Students | Resources for Teachers | Research on this Topic 
High school literacy is key to a high school student's overall prospects for success. Out of a student’s ability to read comes the capacity to graduate and the opportunity to gain access to the workplace and/or post-secondary education. To help educators, parents, and the general public gain awareness on this topic, the National High School Center has compiled key documents that present resources and best practices on how to effectively combat illiteracy in schools.
Support for English Language Learner (ELL) Students
Improving Literacy Outcomes for English Language Learners in High School: Considerations for States and Districts in Developing a Coherent Policy Framework
This research brief outlines existing barriers regarding teacher expectations, tracking, and placement of English language learners and offers key policies and useful strategies in building capacity and developing learning environments conducive for all students in obtaining academic success.
Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent English Language Learners
This report from the Alliance for Excellent Education identifies a series of teaching/learning challenges particular to English language learners as they work to gain academic literacy, while learning English concurrently. It also provides potential solutions and specific policy prescriptions for remedying each of the challenges presented.
Urgent But Overlooked: The Literacy Crisis Among Adolescent English Language Learners
This Alliance for the Excellence in Education issue brief examines the rapid enrollment growth of English Language Learners (ELLs), and recognizes that the nation’s schools must do far more to help these students build strong literacy skills. This piece examines some of the unique challenges facing adolescent ELLs who struggle to read and write proficiently, as well as to complete a rigorous math, science, and social studies curriculum, in a language they have not yet mastered. Appropriate assessments for ELLs, professional development needed for teachers, and policy changes needed to improve education for ELLs are described.
