When schools across California canceled in-person classes in the spring, some students lost crucial opportunities to learn and practice their new language — English. About one-fifth of students in ...

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Strategies like extending wait time and having students write before speaking create conditions for English learners to feel ...

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 ...

While most English learners are U.S.-born citizens, they often come from immigrant households, and some are immigrants ...

This article was originally published in EdSource. Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language and understand the content ...

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Earlier this spring, students in Darshanpreet Gill’s human body systems class sat outside as they filled out booklets about the respiratory system. The dozen or so students spread out across a ...