During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here. Today’s theme is ...

The northeastern Alabama county has some of the highest concentrations of ELL students in the state.

Punjabi students are pictured here in August during a Whiteland High School Punjabi class. The growing Punjabi population is driving much of the demand for English Language Learner classes at the ...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. — Fresh out of college and in need of a job, Kourtney Leuthold really wanted to teach second-graders, but agreed to teach English learners at Worthington Middle School because that ...

Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh’s Public Source via AP Deepa Bardoloi, an English language arts and English language development teacher at Brashear High School, works with a student on Oct. 9 in her ...

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Arizona has not violated federal laws that require schools to help students who do not speak, read or write English. Despite the federal mandates, ...

A new program wants to help Indiana teachers get licensed to teach the state’s growing population of English language learners. The Indiana Teacher of English Language Learners, or I-TELL, program ...

The new question of the week is: Please take out your crystal ball and make some predictions about English-language learners and U.S. schools 10 years from now. How many ELL students might there be?