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 ...

Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

States must invest not just in literacy laws, but in the networks and training that bring those policies to life.

Over the past few years, some states have spent millions of dollars and passed new laws in an attempt to shift the way that schools teach kids how to read. These efforts take aim at commonly used ...

Two prominent California advocacy organizations for English learners are firmly opposing a new state bill that would mandate that reading instruction be aligned with the “science of reading,” saying ...

"C'mon! We're all going down to the field to play kabta bilatoy," the fifth-grader reads, her fingers tracing the words on the page of the graphic novel laying on her desk. "'Kabta is the So-so..." ...

Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

A historically difficult hurdle for English language learners is returning next month with bigger stakes – pass Indiana’s third grade reading assessment or risk being held back. Today’s third graders ...

While some English learners and students of color may be striving to attain minimal academic competency, others are likely to be high-ability or gifted/talented students who are not receiving ...