Bilingual Education

Emily Francis came to the United States at 15. Now an English-as-a-second-language teacher, she shares advice in her new book.

Lesliean Luna and Gabriela Muriente answer a school district's call for their language skills and teaching expertise.

Principals can show teachers they care by something as simple as a visit to their classrooms or a pat on the back.

In the next decade, schools just might appreciate English-learners for whom they are and the language skills they possess.

为什么我们都厄尔尼诺,education-focused Spanish-language radio show and podcast, could help families navigate an uncertain return to school.

Native-language assessments may more fully reflect what English-language learners know and can do academically after months away from school. But not all states offer them.

More than 40 organizations have signed on to a letter to Congress, requesting $1 billion in aid to help districts and states meet the needs of the nation's nearly 5 million English-learners.

English-learners often lack access to technology at home, experts and educators say, and their teachers are less likely to assign them to use digital learning resources outside of class.

The extra work that many dual-language bilingual educators take on "too often goes unrecognized and is never remunerated," a new small-scale study concludes.

While Spanish remains the most commonly spoken English-learner language by far, the numbers for speakers of Arabic and Chinese have grown dramatically over the past decade, federal data show.