Education Week’s top English-language-learner stories of 2019 explored who’s teaching the nation’s English-learners and the struggles those educators encounter on the job, examined why more schools in ...

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I wouldn’t have thought the importance of the English language in America would be controversial, but our era is full of surprises. When I was on Morning Joe the other day talking about my book, The ...

Just 15 years ago, bilingual education was banned in three states—Arizona, California, and Massachusetts—which altogether educated 40 percent of the nation’s English-language learners. Now, amid the ...

In April, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary did something unusual. For the previous 20 years, they had issued quarterly updates to announce new words and meanings selected for inclusion.

% among those ages 5 and older who are English proficient Note: Proficient English speakers are those who speak only English at home, or if they speak a non-English language at home, they indicate ...

% among those ages 5 and older who are English proficient Note: Proficient English speakers are those who speak only English at home, or if they speak a non-English language at home, they indicate ...