{"id":11965,"date":"2022-04-13T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=11965"},"modified":"2022-04-13T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:37:54","slug":"a-new-way-to-measure-school-level-linguistic-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2022\/04\/13\/a-new-way-to-measure-school-level-linguistic-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Way to Measure School-Level Linguistic Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) serves a diverse student population, and language is a key dimension of this diversity. Students enrolled in District-run schools in 2021-22 speak 155 different languages at home, and the number of English Learners (ELs) in the District is growing.<\/p>\n<p>However, linguistic diversity is not distributed uniformly across schools, and some schools serve students with a much wider variety of linguistic backgrounds than others, requiring different resources and support strategies as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Research and Evaluation has developed a new indicator to better describe the predominant composition of the EL population at a given school. The SDP Linguistic Diversity Indicator (LDI) is a calculation of the number of home languages required to account for 80% of English Learners in a given school or population.<\/p>\n<p>This focus brief describes how the LDI is calculated and discusses potential applications of the new indicator.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=&#8221;CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOCUS BRIEF&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#0b315b&#8221; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#398635&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.philasd.org%2Fresearch%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F90%2F2022%2F04%2FLinguistic-Diversity-Indicator-April-2022.pdf&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) serves a diverse student population, and language is a key dimension of this diversity. However, linguistic diversity is not distributed uniformly across schools, and some schools serve students with a much wider variety of linguistic backgrounds than others, requiring different resources and support strategies as a result. The Office of Research and Evaluation has developed a new indicator to better describe the predominant composition of the EL population at a given school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103956,"featured_media":11977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-learners-els"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12005,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions\/12005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}