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Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools District (MCPS) reinstated 54 employees who were impacted by federal changes to temporary protected status (TPS) for El Salvador, but warned that the reinstatement may not be permanent due to rapidly changing federal action, according to a Monday statement from MCPS to impacted employees.  

Family engagement is a critical part of education, and engaging with parents or guardians of English learners offers unique challenges and opportunities.

Latine Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15. Here are some recently published books, from bilingual board books and middle grade titles to Spanish-language picture book biographies and graphic novel memoirs.

Five years ago in 2021, EdSource launched Education Beat for the first time. Today, we say goodbye. This will be the final episode. Over the years, we’ve aimed to bring you personal stories of students, teachers, parents — regular people who bring EdSource stories alive by showing how education policy affects their lives.

Research shows that bilingual education programs, such as dual language immersion, effectively help English learners acquire the English language while also preserving their home language and cultural identity. But most bilingual education programs, in which academic content is taught in both English and another world language, only exist at the elementary grade level, leaving millions of secondary English learners without this valuable resource.

The librarians are not okay. We are crying in our offices around the world for someone who meant the world to us. Most people know Dolly as the famous singer-songwriter and actress. To the librarians, she was our hero. She was our champion. She was one of us. She started Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in 1995 to help provide books to children from birth to age five. Her father grew up struggling to read. She knew that many smart people weren’t given the tools they needed for literacy. 

Researchers and educators see strong demand for world language classes in U.S. schools, though federal policy changes may further complicate schools’ ability to offer such courses.

 Amid deportation crackdowns, hundreds of minors have been detained and deported in California communities, an EdSource analysis has found.

Drilling kids on the rules of grammar doesn’t work, but creative, playful approaches tethered to meaningful writing can make a difference.

English learners with disabilities need teachers who understand both the phases of learning a second language and the intricacies of accommodations and modifications that may be needed for their disability, experts say. To meet these needs, schools must invest in planned, strategic collaboration among teachers across specializations. But that can often be a challenge, especially in suburban school districts where English-learner teachers may be spread across five to six schools within a district, said Silvia DeRuvo, the director of multilingual learners with disabilities services at WestEd, a nonpartisan research organization.