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Designating early elementary students who are close to being proficient in English as English-language learners can have "significant and positive effects on the academic achievement" of the students, new research concludes.

Families of English-language-learner students in the Houston school district are less likely to take advantage of the district's robust school choice options than other students, a study from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research found.

When the Every Student Succeeds Act passed in 2015, there was widespread worry that states would walk away from making sure that particular groups of studentsEnglish-language learners, students in special education, and racial minoritiesmattered in their school accountability systems.

Bilingual people may be better equipped to learn new languages than those who only speak one language, according to a study published in the academic journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

A teacher of EL students provides practical strategies for how to teach Tier two words (per the Common Core Standards, words that are more likely to appear in written text than in speech) to ELs.

Teachers can be first responders in addressing the social and emotional well-being of immigrant students.

States are working to make sure that's not the case, said several state chiefs who spoke on a recent panel moderated by the executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

New research points to a distinct language-learning benefit for people who grow up bilingual or learn another language at an early age.

Two district leaders from Florida and California, respectively, share important lessons in seeing bilingualism as an asset, and the importance of providing ELs with clear language models.

A study from Northwestern University and the American Institutes for Research shows finds that there is no evidence for the notion that the presence of refugee students negatively affects other students' educational experience.