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 ...

Two first grade students in a New York City elementary school use an AI-enabled device that allows them to overcome language barriers. A first grade child, whose parents moved from El Salvador to New ...

After growing up across countries, I knew I wanted my kids to be multilingual — fluent in Dutch, German, and English from ...

A student walks down the hall at ourBRIDGE for Kids, an afterschool program for immigrant and refugee children in Charlotte. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...

A reader faults her husband’s relatives for not teaching their young children any English, which she worries may make for an awkward holiday visit.

As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on sounding out words will come at the expense of learning the meaning of words. State ...

Over the past few years, some states have spent millions of dollars and passed new laws in an attempt to shift the way that schools teach kids how to read. These efforts take aim at commonly used ...

Teachers of Alabama, a new series from AL.com's Education Lab, features educators who are implementing solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing schools in the state. Kristy Estes and her ...

POMONA − Between July and mid-October, East Ramapo officials documented 938 new students coming to the school district − all of them English language learners and many recent immigrants. Two-thirds of ...

The number of Chuukese and Spanish speakers in DOE schools has been rising, while schools are seeing fewer students fluent in ...

I still remember a student I taught in Virginia early in my career. He was maybe 13 or 14, and he’d come to this country on a raft. People died on that journey. When he arrived, he couldn’t read in ...