The shuttering of the office of English language acquisition, or OELA, follows a year in which the Trump administration has contracted the Education Department, dismissed virtually all of OELA’s staff ...

Since January 2025, educators and advocates for English learners and immigrant students have raised concerns about support ...

The Office of English Language Acquisition was decimated by layoffs. Now its work supporting the nation’s 5 million English learners will be absorbed by other offices.

Juan Garcia was proud to walk across a stage this spring at Venture Academy in Stockton to receive a medal for the state seal of biliteracy, proof that he can speak, read and write in English and ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Long-term English learners who have been enrolled in U.S. schools for more than six years without becoming proficient in the language do ...

Strategies like extending wait time and having students write before speaking create conditions for English learners to feel ...

The pandemic has led to a huge shift in learning. This change to remote and online learning has been challenging, but now imagine the challenge of a language barrier on top of that. Language barriers ...

Marisa DeSerio, who teaches English-language learners at Pulaski Street Intermediate School in Riverhead, makes changes to her lessons every year. In the past two years, though, she’s tinkered even ...

A student walks down the hall at ourBRIDGE for Kids, an afterschool program for immigrant and refugee children in Charlotte. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

Bellarmine University has launched a new Master of Arts in Education (MAEd) program in Teacher Leadership in English Language ...

Louisiana’s first alternative program to certify teachers of English learners will seek final approval Wednesday from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in hopes of addressing a shortage ...