For English learners, acquiring language proficiency opens the door to thrive across all subjects. However, learning a new language can be a long, difficult process that requires courage, resilience ...

Positive attitudes toward school and access to dual-language immersion programs are associated with better academic performance among English learners. Learning in overcrowded classrooms and having a ...

Walk into any classroom with students learning English, and you’ll likely see a complex tapestry of linguistic diversity.

Brenda Amparan leads her first graders in Spanish at Pueblo Elementary School in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Sept. 16, 2025.

A panel of experts told EdSource on Tuesday that for English language learners, it’s important to balance phonics and other reading skills all students need with opportunities to grow students’ ...

EdSource · California high schoolers get a crash course in finance Este artículo está disponible en Español. Léelo en español. If you look at English learners’ third-grade reading scores in English at ...

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 ...

Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language ...

Mayra Calderon remembers her struggles at Groves High School when she first immigrated from Mexico to the U.S. two decades ago. “I was 17 at the time. I was told by the person who was helping with ...

Heather Bradley is an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) teacher in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she teaches adult ESOL students. When the English proficiency assessment her program uses ...

Sarah Mireles had her first encounter with a student who didn’t speak English decades ago when Mireles was a middle school student attending Greeley schools. Today, nearly half the population at ...

The Radical Teacher, No. 97, Hip-Hop and Critical Pedagogy (Fall 2013), pp. 36-49 (14 pages) This study explores theoretical and pedagogical implications of hip hop culture in (re)negotiating identity ...