This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. For over a decade, Southport High School teacher Amy Peddie has led classes of students who are ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Students of Black Hawk College's Adult Education English as a Second Language program celebrated their graduation on Thursday at Vibrant Arena. Some students enter the program with ...

Students who started school as English learners but later shed that designation by becoming proficient in the language are more likely than their classmates to graduate from high school and enroll in ...

English learners are, on average, less likely to graduate high school in four years than students who never needed to learn English in school. But social identities like race and gender make a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s true: English learners lag their peers by several metrics, a fact some politicians use to deride their growing presence in ...

A recent study found that every $1 invested in English upskilling produced a $6 return in the form of increases in local tax revenues, consumer spending, job creation, and business investment. In a ...

Luther Burbank High School senior Emili Carrillo is finding ways to learn English — but lately, school isn’t making that easy. The 17-year-old moved from Mexico nearly four years ago with her dad, and ...