Betsy Gilliland Summary

The journal is a study that was done in an American high school in which Betsy Gilliland evaluated the reading and writing performance of multilingual learners along with English native speakers. The study was done with a ninth grade English class at a California public high school. Betsy Gilliland argued that teacher’s curriculums are being restricted by the Department of Education. Education policy has the power to determine what is taught in the classroom (Gilliland,2015). Nowadays, the students are being taught based on a specific curriculum that is not modified to multicultural learners not even to regular student’s needs. Therefore, teachers find themselves in a crucial position because they are being tight up to a curriculum that doesn’t