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 ...

Thousands of California students remain classified as English learners even after they reach proficiency in English, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

¿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 ...

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.

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 ...

Although the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides an official definition of a limited English proficiency (LEP) student, or English language learner (ELL) student, the act leaves it ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at ...

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 ...

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 ...