Peggy Estrada, an associate research scientist in Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a three-year $999,999 grant to study how to best help school-age English learners ...

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 ...

A new bill aims to automatically reclassify students as "fluent and English-proficient" when they score 4 on the proficiency ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

¿Habla espanol? Many Hoosiers do, with nearly 5% of households in Indiana reporting they speak Spanish at home. Eske ou pale Kreyòl? The Haitian community is quickly growing in Indianapolis. According ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at ...

Students who were once English learners but are now proficient in English do better on average on California’s standardized tests than students who only speak English. Some district leaders and ...

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 ...

Although the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides an official definition of a limited English proficiency (LEP) student, or English language learner (ELL) student, the act leaves it ...

An increasing share of English-learning students in Texas are not becoming language proficient within five years, according to new analysis of state data by Rice University’s Kinder Institute. The ...