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 ...

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

About 11% of students in Connecticut's kindergarten to Grade 12 public school population are English learners.

“Based on their training data, they just model the probability that a given token, or word, will follow a set of tokens that have already been generated. The more data that is available in a given ...

An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge, the new monolingual Irish dictionary, "has the potential to transform the teaching and learning of ...

Shirley MacFarland’s weekly community column featuring news and notes from Brecksville, Broadview Heights, North Royalton and ...

Learning a new language has become more accessible and convenient with the emergence of language learning apps. With just a few taps on your smartphone, you can begin the journey of mastering a new ...

State test data suggests more English learners are meeting growth targets. The district credits this in part to hiring more ...

Just as the protests outside asylum hotels of summer 2025 faded from headlines, some anti-immigration groups turned their attention to another target: English classes.      On November 24, a protest ...

A first-ever fully Irish dictionary has been launched in a ‘historic moment’ for the language. The launch means that anyone ...

Youness Guarmouti moves throughout his classes at Amideast, the language school for foreign students in Rabat, with a gentle confidence that appears to win over his students immediately.

Chandler acknowledges that little or non-existent spelling instruction puts children with an existing or emerging learning ...