On a spring morning in 2015, a dozen educators gathered in the White House’s historic Roosevelt Room to speak with President Obama about the most pressing issues that urban school leaders faced. As ...
Punjabi students are pictured here in August during a Whiteland High School Punjabi class. The growing Punjabi population is driving much of the demand for English Language Learner classes at the ...
The new question of the week is: Please take out your crystal ball and make some predictions about English-language learners and U.S. schools 10 years from now. How many ELL students might there be?
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sink or swim. That's the best way Linna Jordan can describe her experience as a new American in Ohio. "I originally came here in 1981. I was 8 years old," she said, "You were just ...
More than 10 percent of students in the United States are English language learners (ELLs) – that’s more than 4.8 million children nationwide. While these children don’t learn any differently than ...
In Michigan, public schools are quietly undergoing a major shift. While overall enrollment declines, the number of English language learners (ELLs) is rising at a historic pace, prompting districts to ...
ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act, the federal education policy that replaced the old one, No Child Left Behind. Signed into law by President Obama in 2015, it ushered in the controversial Common Core, ...
Two years after the pandemic changed the way classes are taught in New York City public schools, English Language Learners (ELLs) continue to struggle. Students for whom English is a new language, ...
Grading can be one of the banes of a teacher’s existence. An added complication can be when an English-language learner is in a “mainstream” content-subject class—what are the best ways a teacher can ...