Punjabi students are pictured here in August during a Whiteland High School Punjabi class. The growing Punjabi population is driving much of the demand for English Language Learner classes at the ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

Jenny Vo earned her B.A. in English from Rice University and her M.Ed. in educational leadership from Lamar University. She has worked with English-learners during all of her 24 years in education and ...

Kelly Hill instructed her class of middle schoolers to talk. "I want to hear a rumble in the room," she said. "Everybody should be talking." Four students in a cluster occasionally wove Spanish words ...

Since the pandemic started, teachers and students have had to transition from brick-and-mortar classrooms to virtual environments, and back. During this time, learning loss–the reversal of academic ...

When Kerri Nazarenus began teaching English language learner classes in Lexington in 1992, she was not certified as an ELL teacher. That situation actually made sense at the time because Nebraska was ...

After the ELL staff met, there was a feeling that services could continue to be provided at the four elementary schools. However, an additional certified teacher is needed, and the need is there ...

I’ve invited educators to share the three most important—AND most likely to be used—strategies that general education teachers can use to make their content more accessible to ELLs (and everyone else) ...

Though every student has experienced the pandemic differently, ELLs have fallen further behind than their peers, which potentially affects their future education and career outcomes. Whether we use ...