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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Selina Yu Ye has been helping immigrant students learn ...

Here’s the latest installment in a series on ways to help ELLs develop more English-speaking skills ... To become well-spoken and effective communicators, English-learners, hereafter referred to as ...

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 ...