With COVID-19 cases spiking in states across the nation, the prospect of school in buildings is becoming unlikely for many more students. Yet some schools are prioritizing students with special ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. High school senior Martha Hernandez was born in Baja California, Mexico, and came to the U.S. when she was 10 years old, in fifth grade. She ...

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 ...

Students who are multilingual learners of English (MLE) play an important role in U.S. society but are often marginalized, misunderstood and underserved in the postsecondary system. Using data from ...

The English learner population is growing but the number of specialized instructors for them and training for general education teachers who work with them is lagging. Researchers and educators say ...

Jennifer Vidales struggled with English in the second grade, when she began attending Desert Springs Elementary School in Nampa after transferring mid-school year. With little communication and no ...

On a dark and wet Tuesday night in November, about a dozen people filed into a basement classroom in Hawkins Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. Helen Mitchell passed out worksheets and dove into ...

The first thing Stephanie Rodriguez tries to give Spanish-speaking adult learners in her community ESL class at Palo Alto College is a sense of belonging. “I always tell them, ‘The moment you cross ...

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 ...