The nation’s federal K-12 law may be penalizing older English-language learners and the schools that educate them, a new report from the Migration Policy Institute argues. By making four-year ...

While graduation rates for English-language learners and Native American students are on the rise, educators and researchers are still questioning whether the needs of those students are being better ...

English learners are, on average, less likely to graduate high school in four years than students who never needed to learn English in school. But social identities like race and gender make a ...

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its-kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic ...

Students in Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools hit record graduation rates for the state, though the school system said there were achievement gaps for Hispanic and English learners. The ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. For over a decade, Southport High School teacher Amy Peddie has led classes of students who are ...

It’s true: English learners lag their peers by several metrics, a fact some politicians use to deride their growing presence in America’s public schools. But researchers with The University of Chicago ...

When English High School's class of 148 seniors paraded through an audience of parents and friends at their graduation, they were nowhere near their school's building in Jamaica Plain. Then again, ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Students of Black Hawk College's Adult Education English as a Second Language program celebrated their graduation on Thursday at Vibrant Arena. Some students enter the program with ...

Luther Burbank High School senior Emili Carrillo is finding ways to learn English — but lately, school isn’t making that easy. The 17-year-old moved from Mexico nearly four years ago with her dad, and ...

After its lunchtime rush, an unassuming McDonald's in Gallatin was decked with graduation balloons and streamers, and filled with employees in cap and gown. Eleven McDonald's employees from all over ...