At Maplewood Elementary School, 140 English language learners have moved up a proficiency level on their English assessment. School staff members applauded the students’ progress and achievements by ...

In a new report called The State of English Learners in California Public Schools, the nonprofit organization Californians Together found that many indicators of academic achievement for English ...

English learner students, also referred to as English language learners (EL), are students whose first language is not English but who are learning English. The lion’s share of the rise in ELL ...

Results on standardized tests revealed that about a quarter of our 9th- and 10th-grade students weren’t reading at grade level. Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose ...

Thousands of California students remain classified as English learners even after they reach proficiency in English, according to research.

When I started teaching in California’s public schools 30 years ago, it was the beginning of the so-called English-only movement. “Qualified teachers” for multilingual learners were chosen to teach if ...

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 ...

In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...

International students with a passion for art, design, or architecture can refine their English language proficiency while developing a competitive portfolio through Pratt Institute’s PreCollege ELL ...