In a kindergarten classroom of 16 children, four will stand out due to their English language deficits. For most of these children, Spanish will be the only language in which they can effectively ...

The Obama administration released guidelines Wednesday that highlight the civil rights of students learning English as a second language, who under federal law are guaranteed targeted help and a ...

The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice have issued a new guidance on the rights of the nation’s nearly 5 million English-language learners, reminding public schools of their obligations ...

The bill of rights would include that parents of an ELL student have the right for information to be communicated in the language instruction program that their child is taught in, in addition to ...

Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private ...

About 1 out of every 10 public school students in the United States right now is learning to speak English. They're called ELLs, for "English Language Learners." There are nearly 5 million of them ...

PHOENIX — Two federal investigations have found that Arizona is violating the civil rights of some students who are not native English speakers by denying them access to special pr… ...

A proposal to enact an English Language Learners’ Bill of Rights passed the House Thursday in a 129-19 vote as part of an education omnibus bill that now heads to the Senate for final approval.

The bill of rights would require that parents of an ELL student have the right for information to be communicated in the language instruction program that their child is taught in, in addition to ...

A proposal to enact an English Language Learners’ Bill of Rights passed the House Thursday in a 129-19 vote as part of an education omnibus bill that now heads to the Senate for final approval.

At least 327 English-language learners during the 2016-17 school year were placed in programs that did not provide any direct English-language services from a qualified instructor, according to ...

For one Bridgeport mother, it took three weeks to learn that her son could register for school without disclosing their immigration status. The school district didn’t provide her any resource… ...