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Both preschool students and their family members benefit from the Mankato Area Public Schools' Lincoln Community Center's efforts to provide English language learning to new immigrants in this small Minnesota community.

The Schools for Opportunity program recognizes schools nationwide that provide health and psychological support for students, judicious and fair discipline policies, high-quality teacher mentoring programs, outreach to the community, effective student and faculty support systems, and broad and enric

These posts represent two different responses from experts to the question, How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS [Common Core State Standards]?

This blog post describes a study of Philadelphia's schools that provided policy makers with detailed descriptive analyses of the EL population over many years. The post also highlights a recent Department of Education publication, from the Institute for Education Sciences.

Spurred by changes in federal law, states are ramping up and revising English-proficiency testing, According to WIDA's director of research H. Gary Cook, quoted in this article, ESSA has basically set a different way of looking at the bar, and now people are trying to catch up to that."

The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (DPI) launched its Native American Essential Understanding Project in 2016, modeled after similar programs in Montana and South Dakota.

Los Angeles Unified School District has approved the expansion of their dual-language immersion programs to as many as eight more pre-K classrooms.

This article describes new dual language programs popping up throughout Idaho.

Denver Public Schools staff found that one of the charter schools competing to replace a low-performing elementary school did not meet the requirements of a court order dictating how ELs must be taught in DPS.

new Washington state law would provide grants of up to $200,000 for school districts to create or expand dual-language programs. But funding remains uncertain because lawmakers have yet to reach agreement on a 2017-19 state budget.