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

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Low statewide reading scores have sparked many advocates to call for California to adopt a so-called structured literacy curriculum that ...

While states with some of the largest English-learner populations, such as California and Texas, use their own exams, most states rely on the WIDA ACCESS test to fulfill federal requirements for ...

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, ...

Teaching English to non-native speakers has quietly evolved into a flexible, global and increasingly lucrative way to earn ...

Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged that leave teachers of English learners puzzled: First, does research on reading, ...

Boston College’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program is designed to prepare future English language educators with the essential skills, knowledge, and ...

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 ...

At Lew Wallace School 107, principal Arthur Hinton sees students come from all over the world. The sounds of Spanish, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, and Arabic can fill the halls of the K-6 school on the west ...

Leer en Español. When Stephanie, then 16, traveled by herself from Honduras to the U.S. last spring to reunite with her father in New Orleans, she was lonely and afraid. She didn’t know what to expect ...

The Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) microcredential is designed for students who have initial or professional teacher certification and are seeking to obtain an additional ...