Public schools in Bartholomew County and the surrounding area have seen a 21% increase in English learner students over the past three school years, continuing a nearly two-decade trend in which that ...

Three elementary-aged students sitting on floor in circle. Learning a different language can be a point of pride, but there is a practical advantage too. Job postings seeking bilingual or trilingual ...

Sarah Mireles had her first encounter with a student who didn’t speak English decades ago when Mireles was a middle school student attending Greeley schools. Today, nearly half the population at ...

At Maplewood Elementary School, 140 English language learners have moved up a proficiency level on their English assessment. School staff members applauded the students’ progress and achievements by ...

Twenty years ago, Licking Heights Local Schools was a rural district with a predominantly English-speaking student population. In 2023, a visitor walking down the hall might hear a group of students ...

Forty-five languages are spoken by students across Northville Public Schools, where the diversity of its small English-learner population ― about 540 students in K-12 or roughly 22% of all students ― ...

When Abdul Zaman's family resettled in Erie in January 2022 after Kabul, Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban, he said his children weren't afraid of their new surroundings. "They were excited when they ...

LAS CRUCES - Only 3 percent of English language learners in New Mexico's public schools passed the standardized proficiency exam in 2019. In 2017, less than 1 percent of students passed. The previous ...

In response to a steady increase in the number of students enrolled in Lincoln Public Schools’ English Learner program and a change in curriculum, the district has hired several new teachers for the ...

After a professional development session for my teacher education program, I met with my supervisor to express a concern about a required program activity for my students. I told my supervisor the ...

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 ...