English learners represent one of the fastest-growing student groups in U.S. schools, yet educators consistently report that they feel underprepared to meet these students’ needs. This forum will ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing The school year has begun, which for many young children means they have entered a brand-new environment and sometimes are ...

Two in five students in California public schools speak languages other than English at home. The state still has a long way to go to bring all those students to proficiency in English and help them ...

Before the 1950s, prevailing research indicated that bilingualism created a disadvantage for children. Since then, many studies have found that not only were those concerns unfounded but that ...

Six years ago, Ensemble Learning, an organization dedicated to helping dual-language programs through curriculum building and professional development, received a federal grant to support its efforts ...

The committee examined how evidence based on research relevant to the development of dual language learners/English learners from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne tried to bar students classified as English learners from enrolling in ...

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs visited two dual language immersion programs on Tuesday, where she witnessed students learning in English for half of the day and in Spanish or Mandarin Chinese for the other half.

Arizona Schools Chief Tom Horne does not have the authority to withhold funding from schools that offer dual language programs, Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a legal opinion issued Monday, a ...