Conor P. Williams View as PDF On Friday, New America’s Dual Language Learners National Work Group published a series of papers exploring three communities’ efforts to improve how their school serve dual language learners (DLLs).

Many Minnesota schools rely on teacher-created Somali language classes. A new curriculum, created by Saida Hassan, aims to ease that burden and make programs easier to sustain.

Colorado lawmakers say not enough school districts offer an endorsement to students who have mastered English and another language. A bill this year aims to change that.

Last fall, the federal government abruptly canceled funding that states and school districts were using to expand academic opportunities, strengthen

Despite Administration’s desire to slash education spending, a final bicameral, bipartisan bill restores most funding, including English Learner, World Language, EdTech, and Professional Development ​With a January 30 deadline coming up, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees released a four bill FY26 “minibus” appropriations bill that contains final compromise funding levels for the Departments of Education, Defense, Labor, and HHS. Key K-12 programs that the Trump Administration proposed for elimination—including Title II-A (Professional Development), Title III (English Language Acquisition), Title IV-A (flexible block grant, often used for EdTech), Native Hawaiian Education and Alaska Native Education—are being retained at the same

District plans to expand co-teaching model after higher test scores and faster language growth.

Supported by a Teaching and Learning Grant, the By Learners For Learners project brings undergraduate-written children’s stories to life with the release of fully illustrated digital publications

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The findings are clear: Puerto Ricans want both languages, and not a forced choice between them.

Margarita Machado-Casas is the new president of the National Association for Bilingual Education

An audit from city Comptroller Brad Lander found that the city Department of Education has not been providing legally-mandated services for English Language Learners, disproportionately impacting Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali and Arabic-speaking communities.

The French American Academy, a private bilingual school with campuses in Englewood and Downtown Jersey City, has opened its first high school campus in the Jersey City Heights. The new high school …

Linguistic diversity among our multilingual students in grades pre-K–12 has been steadily increasing over the last 15 years, and with changing classroom dynamics, we need strong, intentional instruction to meet their unique needs. Yet, all too often, novice and experienced teachers may teach as if they are working with students who come from monolingual, English-speaking American backgrounds, despite today’s classrooms being far more culturally and linguistically diverse than ever before. To truly support every learner, start from an asset-based approach—recognizing and valuing the rich linguistic and cultural resources multilingual students bring to the classroom. How can educators create a support

An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.

The Dorchester-based program is believed to be the first Kriolu-English language offered anywhere, including in Cabo Verde, where the people’s language is Kriolu, but the official language is Portuguese.

Asking a child to juggle seven balls all at once—a challenge for even the most talented circus performer—would end in disaster. And yet, every day in schools across the country, children are expected to learn reading, writing, math, science, social studies, the arts, and health education. Consider the added complexities of learning how to work and play well with others, and it is easy to see how students are facing an enormous cognitive load. On top of it all, many of them are also moving fluidly between two (or more) languages. This is a case of what the kids like

Students ages one to 13 are immersed in the Colville-Okanagan Salish language — learning alongside their teachers and families

Latino students and families begin the new year still facing the Trump administration’s attacks on public education, which include the threat of indiscriminate immigration raids, federal funding disruptions and the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education. What can advocates and educators do to support students, including Latinos, in 2026?

Illinois schools will soon receive incentives to expand dual language programs thanks to a new state law.

A New York City’s Department of Education audit report found thousands of immigrant students were left without proper English instruction or certified teachers.

As a reading interventionist and Haitian immigrant, Websder Corneille supports Haitian students who are learning English, but said his role is more than serving the students or school —he serves the community.

The answer is all students, but English learners face accessibility barriers.

Moving Beyond Binary Thinking about Language in the Classroom The concept of academic language is most widely attributed to Jim Cummins, who introduced the distinction between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) in the late 1970s and early 1980s (Cummins, 1979). BICS and CALP have been canon in ESL teacher education during the four decades that followed. Amidst a global pandemic and the death of a black man under the knee of a white police officer, academic language was challenged by a new generation of scholars in 2020. A committee dedicated to Anti-Black Racism and

The Trump administration has rescinded guidelines on how schools should teach English learners, which has caused concern for administrators and families.

Supporting the oracy needs of EAL learners in all their subjects and practical and sustainable strategies for teachers