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Whether a fan of paranormal mysteries or someone looking for a heartrending novel in verse, these eclectic reads offer something for everyone.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with children's book author Matt de la Peña about summer reading recommendations for kids of all ages when they complain, "I'm bored!"

The Arizona State Board of Education will not be taking action against schools that use a 50-50 dual language immersion model for English Language Learning students following a formal opinion from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.

Corinne Davidson is a journalism student at San Diego State University and a member of EdSource's California Student Journalism Corps. In this editorial, she writes, "My mom always talks about Cantonese being my first language, but it’s hard to believe now that I can barely understand it."

In the spring of last year, Rachel and Yariel Colon came to Allentown from the Dominican Republic. For the siblings — both students at South Mountain Middle School — the move has made for a relatively smooth transition because their classmates have been so welcoming.

The 2023 English Language Learning (ELL) summer program on the Vineyard wrapped up its classes earlier this month. The program serves English language learners in kindergarten through seventh grade.

Denver schools remain intensely segregated by race and family income — conditions that have persisted for decades and play a major role in shaping educational opportunities, a new study finds. 

Virginia Vasquez, 16, only started learning English five years ago when she and her family left Venezuela for a better life in the U.S. Like generations of immigrant teens before her, Virginia has become a crucial lifeline for her family as she translates invoices and bills and other information for her Spanish-speaking parents, who left behind careers as an elementary school teacher and a horse trainer and now clean offices in the Tampa, Florida, area.

Boston Public Schools anticipates an additional 2,000 students to enroll in summer learning programs this year compared with last year, thanks in part to the expansion of a program that combines enrichment activities with coordinating classroom lessons.

In February, Montana state Rep. Lola Sheldon-Galloway proposed a bill that would have banned social-emotional learning in schools, arguing that the lessons that emphasize regulation of emotions, healthy relationships, and empathy violated parents’ right to direct their own children’s upbringing. However, by the end of the Feb. 27 education committee hearing on the bill, during which educators, lawmakers, and parents lined up to speak in opposition, Sheldon-Galloway, a Republican, had changed her mind. The committee ultimately tabled the bill, but the discussion highlighted three intertwined themes: Confusion over what comprises social and emotional learning; the political backlash it’s generated in recent years, linked to other political lightning rods like critical race theory; and finally, how the opposition softens once it’s explained.