Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District who are still learning English are becoming proficient in their new language at record levels. In L.A. Unified, 20.7 percent of the students who ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When your child is an English learner, it can be confusing and difficult to understand whether they are progressing normally toward ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English when they ...

Chicago Public Schools students who aren’t proficient in English when they enter kindergarten tend to have better attendance and in some cases higher test scores than their peers who are native ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

Guidance from the U.S. Department of Education hasn’t answered all the questions or allayed concerns from civil rights and Latino advocacy groups about how the Every Student Succeeds Act will alter ...

Shawna Shapiro, an associate professor of writing and linguistics at Middlebury College, outlined tactics to help English Learners transition to college in a recent report published by the think tank ...

A poster showing Montpelier High School’s learning expectations is visible around the building. Students are assessed on habits of learning, citizenship and five other “transferable skills” under the ...

An increasing share of English-learning students in Texas are not becoming language proficient within five years, according to new analysis of state data by Rice University’s Kinder Institute. The ...

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