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 ...

Peggy Estrada, an associate research scientist in Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a three-year $999,999 grant to study how to best help school-age English learners ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

¿Habla espanol? Many Hoosiers do, with nearly 5% of households in Indiana reporting they speak Spanish at home. Eske ou pale Kreyòl? The Haitian community is quickly growing in Indianapolis. According ...

“The New Demography of America’s Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act” is posted by the Urban Institute. Three out of four U.S. elementary school students with limited proficiency in ...

Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs) -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the US -- lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational ...

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 ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. About 1 in 3 students in California’s ...

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 ...

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 ...