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Challenges inherent to increasing student literacy are well-documented particularly in under performing schools. Those challenges increase in schools experiencing high staff turnover, high populations of English language learners, and greater poverty.

The learning of English can help learners to not only understand and enjoy cultural products of the target language community, but also allows them to share what they enjoy in their own language community, or other communities to which English grants them access, with the world.

Challenges inherent to increasing student literacy are well-documented particularly in under performing schools. Those challenges increase in schools experiencing high staff turnover, high populations of English language learners, and greater poverty.

In this article we draw upon the ethnography of language planning and policy (LPP) to examine the complexities of how young Latino children with a recently deported parent engage with family language policies within their routine interactions. We explore the following questions.

English learners (ELs) constitute one of the fastest growing K-12 public school student populations in the United States.

With nearly 5 million ELs enrolling in U.S. schools, local districts struggle to develop capacity to meet their needs. This study examines approaches taken by federal, state, and local systems to provide appropriate funding for educating ELs

This policy update explains some of the changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as it is amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

A new report identifies 50 places where schools are geographically adjacent but resourcefully juxtaposed.

This commentary from U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. argues for a decrease in incarceration spending and an increase in education spending.