A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English-language learners in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure ...

Clark County School District, where one in five students is considered English language learners, is developing a sweeping master plan to help children with limited proficiency in English. District ...

There are millions of English-language Learners in U.S. schools, and many—if not most—of them are in mainstream classes with students who are much more proficient in English. Given that situation, how ...

TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Raz-Plus ELL Edition, a blended learning platform for K–5 reading featuring a collection of leveled books and resources for English language learners (ELLs), has been ...

On a spring morning in 2015, a dozen educators gathered in the White House’s historic Roosevelt Room to speak with President Obama about the most pressing issues that urban school leaders faced. As ...

This article is part of the collection: Going Back to School With the 2016 EdSurge Fifty States Project. Data is such an integral part of education, and can be especially helpful to teachers with ...

In this course you will learn how to design lesson plans around the needs of your ELL students and their language level through the analysis of content language and cognitive demands. You will learn ...

In the wake of the NCLB legislation, several recent analyses have examined the measured school achievement of English language learners (ELLs) at both the national and state level (Batalova, Fix and ...

In high-stakes test preparation, one size does not fit all. For students whose first language is not English, tips like “use your inner grammar ear” and explanations like “you don’t say X, you say Y” ...

Arizona lawmakers are trying to roll back the state’s mandate that requires English-language learners in K-12 classrooms to spend four hours a day in English-only instruction. During the mandatory, ...