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New America, Reimagined: Built for What’s Next
New America Announces Its New Mission and Vision, Reveals New Logo and Website
AI Risks Creating a ‘Demand Machine’ for Governments, Report Warns
New Online Toolkit Offers Educators Research-based Instructional Resources To Support Multilingual Students in PreK-3
This one-stop-shop offers all educators the opportunity to build their capacity to support linguistically diverse students.
New English Learner Accountability Hub: One-Stop-Shop for State-Level EL Policies
A state-by-state look at EL policies and practices across the country after ESSA.
English Learners Were at a High Risk of Being Suspended Before the Pandemic, Restorative Practices May Offer Much Needed Relief
ELs’ post-COVID socioemotional and behavioral needs will require a shift in school discipline towards empathetic restorative approaches.
States Provide First-hand Accounts of Most Pressing Needs of English Learners After a Year and a Half of Remote Learning
Mental health, disengagement, and growing opportunity gaps among top issues for English learners as they close out the 2020-21 school year.
Language, Race, and Ethnic Diversity Among Asian American and Pacific Islander English Learners
AAPI communities are heterogeneous, but the Asian subgroup in education data does not reflect ELs with less common Asian ancestry.
SLIFE Lessons: How Schools Can Draw on Strategies Designed for Students with Interrupted/limited Formal Education to Help English Learners in the Aftermath of COVID-19
As schools return to in-person instruction, the SLIFE field offers key insight on how to equitably serve ELs when time is of the essence.
How to Maximize COVID-relief Funding for English Learners
Local education leaders must be intentional and targeted in their allocation of funds to improve English learners’ opportunity to learn.
Looking Beyond the ‘Typical’ English Learner: the Intersectionality of Black English Learners in U.S. Public Schools
Though often overlooked, learning about Black ELs’ experiences can help foster cultural and linguistic inclusivity in EL education.
Assessing English Learners During Remote Learning
Local education leaders offer insight on how to assess ELs’ needs when standardized testing goes awry.