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Listening is one of the four essential domains (the others are reading, writing, and speaking) for English learners—and for all students. It’s also a skill that often gets less attention in the classroom.

Here are some instructional strategies educators use to help English learners—and other students—master that critical skill.

For Matt Gile, a preK–12 librarian for Winooski (VT) School District, read-alouds are one of the ways he tries to make all students feel comfortable in this community with a large refugee population. With the help of the home school liaisons, who often act as translators for students and families, he presents read-alouds in different languages.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, an award-winning fiction writer and poet who drew upon his sexuality and his life on the Southern border, has died at age 71. He was the first Latino to win the PEN/Faulkner prize.

Los Angeles Unified School District students returned to school Wednesday amid lingering concerns about immigration enforcement and environmental safety, with district officials reassuring families that campuses were safe and ready for the new school year.    

The Trump administration on Thursday proposed significant changes to Head Start, the nation’s early education program for children from low-income families. The move would diminish the program’s federal standards and give states and parents more control.

Adults from seemingly every corner of society are weighing in on artificial intelligence policies in the classroom. But what do students have to say about it? A recent event offered some clues, as student leaders from around the nation proposed a set of national guidelines for the use of AI in schools at the America’s Youth AI Festival in Boston. The three-day event brought together student leaders, educators, and school system leaders from across the country to discuss acceptable AI use in schools.

Recruiting enough teachers certified to teach English-language development has historically been a challenge for schools across the country.

A federal grant program for professional development focused on working with English learners will continue this fall with a new cohort of projects, and new priorities, including letters of endorsement from governors and state education officials.

SkoBots use a form of artificial intelligence to speak Indigenous languages, and they're small enough to mount on the user's shoulder. They sort of resemble mini R2-D2 droids, from Star Wars, except these robots are designed to look like woodland creatures and decorated in Native American florals.

Should students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide.