Arizona official subpoenas researchers' ELL data
By Mary Ann Zehr/Education Week
A subpoena seeking research data related to the education of English-language learners in Arizona is drawing fire from civil rights advocates and researchers. Lawyers for state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne want the data for use in a long-running federal court case over Arizona’s approach to educating its ELL students. But researchers from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and from Arizona State University, Tempe, had promised that the information—which includes the names of study participants—wouldn’t be made public. (more...)