Getting parents and families actively engaged in a student’s academic performance and overall school experience can make a difference in a child’s life. But how do schools and districts best entice ...

For all the noise and attention and — laudable — political energy behind it, the science of reading is not a thing. Or, rather, it is not a thing that schools can implement. The science of reading is ...

Decades of research show that students who speak a language other than English develop English-language proficiency best by ...

When Jen Hanson, a veteran multilingual educator, first arrived at Denver’s Cherry Creek School District in June 2025, she said she quickly suspected the district was creating its own rules for moving ...

This chapter addresses the issue of assessing the language proficiency and subject matter knowledge and skills of English-language learners. 1 Assessment plays a central role in the education of ...

Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged that leave teachers of English learners puzzled: First, does research on reading, ...

Teachers of Alabama, a new series from AL.com's Education Lab, features educators who are implementing solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing schools in the state. Kristy Estes and her ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Walk into almost any school in California, and you’ll notice conversations happening in several languages. This is one of the state’s ...

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 ...

For the first time since the pandemic, California has released data showing how many English learners became proficient in English.