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This brief describes innovative, remote adult ESOL program practices and designs based on interviews with staff from 34 adult ESOL programs across the US about their use of digital technologies for onboarding, instruction, and supports to diverse ESOL learners.

The Standards-in-Action (SIA) 2.0 English Learner (EL) Training Institute shows adult educators how to provide college and career readiness (CCR) instruction to ELs.

This brief explores the characteristics of the high schools that newcomer students choose to attend in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).

This brief examines the outcomes of high school-aged newcomer students—recently arrived immigrant English learners—in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).

This brief evaluates the causal effect of attending Las Americas Middle School on newcomer students’ early high school outcomes.

This series of briefs brief explores the potential of four research-based policy levers to support access to core content courses for students classified as English Learners (ELs).

This report shares demographic characteristics and educational outcomes of high school newcomers in Massachusetts over time, using longitudinal data from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

This brief depicts trends related to academic performance, namely trends in English-Learner (EL) classified student performance on Math and English Language Arts (ELA) SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment System) assessments.

This brief depicts demographic trends and the rich diversity of the English-Learner (EL) classified students enrolled in California’s public schools, including the number of language learners, geographic trends in where they live, their home language, and their race.

The number of English learners enrolled in public schools has grown substantially in the United States over the past two decades.