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This report is the latest in a series of NCES reports on high school dropout and completion rates. The authors utilized a wide array of surveys and administrative data sets to present statistics on high school dropout and completion rates at the state and national levels.

High school graduation rates for English learners (ELs) have risen in recent years to 67% in 2015-2016. However, the rate for ELs is far below the 84% graduation rate for all students.

This latest data story from the Department of Education presents national data on two important outcomes for ELs: grades 4 and 8 performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress and on-time graduation rates of ELs and non-ELs. This report is provided in an online interactive format.

A program for 4-year-olds in California called transitional kindergarten (TK) has been found to have distinct advantages, in terms of long-terms effects, in ELs who attend.

Schools that want to improve the educational prospects for ELs should take account of what's happening in their students' lives outside the classroom, according to a new report.

Despite the well-documented benefits of bilingualism, current educational practices in the United States reflect the deeply held belief that because the United States is an English speaking country, English should be the language of instruction.

For more than two decades, accommodations have served as the primary strategy for ensuring the valid participation of multilingual learners ( MLLs) in high-stakes summative assessments.

Immigrant children's ambitious educational choices have often been linked to their families' high level of optimism and motivation for upward mobility. However, previous research has mostly neglected alternative explanations such as information asymmetries or anticipated discrimination.

: Project-based learning (PBL) and traditional teaching methods represent two opposing pedagogical philosophies. A PBL Biology lab course was designed and taught concurrently with its traditional counterpart to compare student success.