The shuttering of the office of English language acquisition, or OELA, follows a year in which the Trump administration has ...

Since January 2025, educators and advocates for English learners and immigrant students have raised concerns about support ...

The Office of English Language Acquisition was decimated by layoffs. Now its work supporting the nation’s 5 million English ...

April 16, 2026 - EdSource Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald explains how this election could reshape California schools. Juan Garcia was proud to walk across a stage this spring at Venture Academy in ...

Strategies like extending wait time and having students write before speaking create conditions for English learners to feel ...

Teachers who work with English language learners say they need more training in language instruction and identities — as well as greater engagement with multilingual families, according to an EdWeek ...

Marisa DeSerio, who teaches English-language learners at Pulaski Street Intermediate School in Riverhead, makes changes to her lessons every year. In the past two years, though, she’s tinkered even ...

The pandemic has led to a huge shift in learning. This change to remote and online learning has been challenging, but now imagine the challenge of a language barrier on top of that. Language barriers ...

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher ...

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 at Silvermine Dual Language Magnet School in Norwalk listen to state Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona read a book. Cardona regularly talks about how it is important for students to see ...