Here’s a collection of the English-learner-focused stories that resonated most with EdWeek readers in 2025. In July, the U.S.

English learners need foundational skills like phonics and vocabulary in addition to instruction in speaking and understanding English and connections to their home languages. Those are two agreements ...

Central Unified schools have been steadily boosting up their testing scores over the last few years, particularly in their ...

English Learners (EL) in Virginia schools are lagging behind their native peers due to a lack of funding and services to ...

For district leaders considering strategies to support English learners in K-12 schools today, AI tools have the potential to ...

The U.S. Department of Education has rescinded guidance for schools to help students learning English as a second language, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The guidance, first sent out in 2015 ...

The number of North Carolina public schools in need of helping learning English has dropped but education officials don’t ...

More English learners in Loudoun County Public Schools are making progress toward becoming proficient in the language, according to data presented during a school board meeting this week. In 2024, ...

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 ...

The State Board of Education says the 15,513-student drop is due to a change in how they’re identifying English Learners.

The Loudoun County School Board’s Performance Monitoring Committee reviewed the latest English learner data during a meeting ...

A new study highlighted that Florida has the highest concentration of adults eager to learn the English language nationwide.