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A new report highlights the challenges and solutions to offering bilingual education in high school.
Mapping Content and Language DevelopmentHigh-quality materials align content knowledge and disciplinary language, spiraling language functions and features across the program so students build the language they need to access texts and complete tasks.Essential question to ask when evaluating...
California school districts each determine their own policies for reclassifying English Learners as proficient, an approach that is contrary to federal law and may be holding some EL students back from access to mainstream curricula. Our survey of almost 350 districts reveals areas across the reclassification process that can be streamlined and improved.
At the end of July, Representatives Deborah Ross (NC-02), Valerie Foushee (NC-04), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) introduced the Advancing International and Foreign Language Education Act to support foreign language and international education programs at colleges and universities by reauthorizing Title VI of the Higher Education Act—the Fulbright-Hays programs. Specifically, the Advancing International and Foreign Language […]
Research shows it's not necessary to lose a home language to learn English.
Laura Stewart, Terrie Noland, and Jeanne Schopf offer practical strategies for the secondary classroom The 2024 NAEP Report Card delivered a stark reminder: only 30% of eighth graders and 35% of twelfth graders are reading at a proficient level. These are not abstract statistics. They represent students like the eighth grader who threw a computer […]
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey believe professional learning communities can fulfill their promise as powerful drivers of equity, efficacy, and lasting school improvement
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island (LCRI) and the National Education Association (NEA), on behalf of its members, have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) termination of millions of dollars in professional development grants for improving educational instruction for English learners. In September 2025, the […]
Multilingual learners build language gradually. That's why frequent program resets can create unintended challenges.
Some foreign-born educators have had to leave the classroom already. Others might never arrive in the U.S. if Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee stands.
Thirty-nine students from 16 high schools earned the 2026 Navajo Nation Seal of Bilingual Proficiency, a recognition for students who demonstrated proficiency in Diné Bizaad and English.
ATLANTA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island (LCRI) and the National Education Association (NEA), on behalf of its members, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) unlawful termination of millions of dollars in professional development grants for improving educational instruction for English learners. In […]
School officials are debating whether to shrink the dual language program in Delavan-Darien. Here's what's next.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would eliminate bilingual instruction requirements in federal Head Start classrooms, establishing the first national English-only directive for early childhood education. Published under the administrative title Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs, the draft regulations would dismantle longstanding […]
A new Pew survey found gaps remain in schools' language-course offerings.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) will continue to send billions of formula dollars through its own online G5 grants system this fall, and not through the portal run by the Department of Labor, where most K-12 programs have been moved. This includes $10.8 billion of Title I formula grants for schools serving low-income students […]
Sailee Charlu, 17, is hoping to get a bill sponsored in the California Legislature that would codify more pathways to multilingual learning
Research shows how the reclassification of older English learners in Texas carries varied outcomes.
The White House is proposing sweeping regulatory changes for federal grantmaking.
When we train teachers to reach English learners, we are actually training them in the absolute highest standard of instruction.
Nubia Tarazona still remembers looking at her high school schedule and knowing something wasn't right. She had arrived in New Mexico from Venezuela at 16 years old, carrying more than a suitcase and an accent. She brought with her year
Last year, the federal agency ended 28 grants for training teachers working with English learners.
English learners make up 17% of California students, but few are comfortable enough to show up when decisions that affect them are under discussion. Districts should change that.
In Winooski, Vermont, where more than a third of children are English learners, a school superintendent has invested in protecting immigrant students even as one of his own was detained
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