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Challenging, culturally responsive assignments can create a dynamic that supports students’ language development and critical thinking.

Carlos Garcia Saldaña drove past block after block of homes, businesses, and churches “wiped off the face of the earth.” The Eaton fire that had consumed large parts of Altadena was still burning in the San Gabriel Mountains. The charter network leader needed to see what remained of his schools.

Just a few miles from the wildfire evacuation zones, YA writer and high school English teacher Veronica Bane has watched the fires wreak incomprehensible damage to her city. As an English teacher in a school without a library, Bane’s classroom library became the default library for the school. She sees every day the importance of the books on the student community and she knew classroom libraries and personal collections were being lost. She knew she could replace those books.

LA is getting a reprieve because Santa Ana winds haven't been as bad recently. But with schools still closed after more than a week of chaos, kids are struggling. Hear more on the latest from LA.

The ability to understand why people do what they do starts with empathy, and using the hierarchy of needs can help students understand fictional characters.

The California wildfires add to the growing tally of natural disasters that have upended the school year for thousands of students across the country. In September, schools in the South faced extended closures after Hurricane Helene swept through the Gulf Coast up through the Appalachian Mountains. The disruptions will be harmful to students for years to come, researchers say.

The number of English language learners enrolling in Pittsburgh-area schools has grown as immigrant families move in.

New York and some other school districts across the country are readying educators and immigrant families for a potential wave of deportations.

School districts across Los Angeles County have announced plans to close all or some schools as multiple fires spread across the Los Angeles area. In total, nearly two dozen school districts have announced full or partial closures. However, some that had closed Wednesday announced that they'd be able to reopen on Thursday, in spite of bad air quality.

Montserrat Garibay arrived in the United States three decades ago with her mother and sister as an undocumented immigrant, and learned English at a public middle school in Austin, TX. For the past four years, she's been at the U.S. Department of Education, first as the senior adviser for labor relations to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and, for the past two years, as deputy assistant secretary and director of the department's office of English-language acquisition.