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 ...

I spend my days with immigrants who are working toward education, opportunity and a better future for their families, ESL ...

English remains the world's international language of communication, yet new research shows that EU citizens' reading and listening skills are better than their speaking and writing. The Dutch have ...

My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, my current Japanese teacher, estimates ...

Here’s a collection of the English-learner-focused stories that resonated most with EdWeek readers in 2025. In July, the U.S. Department of Justice published guidance on how federal agencies could ...

English as a Second Language tutoring at the Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St., Phoenicia, runs every Thursday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., with librarian Susan teaching English to those who ...

“Lexcee Oddo leads with compassion, kindness and a commitment to help all English language learners excel at Turner Elementary School,” wrote Jennifer Fuller, vice president of the awards committee, ...

He's a theatrical Captain Jack Sparrow with no eyepatch, a flibbertigibbet, a Francophile whose energetic antics include ...

Pasco High School bilingual math teacher Gabriela Whitemarsh stands in front of Seattle artist Steve Gardner’s “Where Will You Go?” mural on campus. The 2010 piece depicts two people in a boat and ...

I find older students take tiny, tiny steps and then they fall back,” Ono-san — san is an honorific in Japanese to show respect — tells me. “They can’t focus as long. I teach something one minute and ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Orinoco, named for the river running between Venezuela and Colombia, is a Latin American restaurant in Lake Charles offering a conversation exchange for their customers on ...