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Last year, Susana Beltrán-Grimm was visiting Hispanic families for a research project about parents and math, when she started to notice a trend. Parents didn’t want to talk about math with the Portland State University professor. Instead, they wanted to talk about their fears as immigration enforcement ramped up across the country. These comments led Beltrán-Grimm to launch a small pilot study looking at how parental stress and fear around immigration enforcement was affecting children, and specifically, their opportunities to play. Her initial findings painted a clear picture: Parents were so fearful of immigration enforcement, they were avoiding taking their kids to playgrounds and parks.

This week, 330,000 Haitian immigrants who’ve lived and worked in the U.S. legally, sometimes for decades, were set to lose their immigration protections. That’s after the Trump administration announced it would end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitians on Feb. 3. After a federal court order on Monday, the program remains in place for now, but could still be undone. The administration says it will appeal the ruling, potentially to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Accounts from detained families, their lawyers and court filings describe the federal detention center in Dilley Immigration Processing Center as a place where hundreds of children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

A study published in Scientific Reports challenges longtime notions about how deaf children learn to read.

Vanderbilt Health researchers report that many prelingually deaf children who use cochlear implants (CIs) achieve age-typical language and reading comprehension, even though their ability to process speech sounds is reduced.

The 5-year-old boy who spent nearly two weeks detained by immigration authorities now wakes up crying during the night, terrified his family could be separated again, his father told Noticias Telemundo.

Today’s post is the final one in a series where educators share potential challenges that might exist in teaching English Learners, and how to respond to them.

A new bill would help Colorado students get recognition at graduation for being fluent in more than one language. Colorado lawmakers created a process in 2017 for districts to create a seal of biliteracy to be awarded at graduation. Students earn the endorsement if they show proficiency in English and another language through grades and tests.

University leaders say Chico State is losing more than $3 million in federal funds, as part of a larger cancellation of more than $350 million in grants to minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Now, around the country, those colleges are hustling to find ways to replace or do without the money, which covered such things as research grants, laboratory equipment, curricular materials and student support programs — budget items whose benefits extended to all students, not only Hispanic students or those from other ethnic groups.

Encouraging students to ‘look out for each other on purpose’ has a powerful impact. These classroom and schoolwide strategies will help you get started.

More than two-thirds of U.S. high school principals have reported ripple effects from immigration enforcement fears in the past school year, according to a survey by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access.