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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.

EdSource’s podcast Education Beat is ending after five years. This week’s episode, released Thursday, Aug. 27, will be their last. Look back at some of their powerful stories over the years.

Educators took on an expanded role, and bore an emotional toll, in caring for immigrant students this past school year as the presence of federal immigration agents in their communities grew. That is a key finding in a qualitative report published Aug. 4 by Sophia Rodriguez, an associate professor of educational policy at New York University, in partnership with the National Immigration Law Center.

This episode returns to the Gutiérrez Ramírez siblings, whose college dreams were temporarily derailed when their dad was forced to remain in Mexico in 2019.

Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia offer standardized assessments in languages other than English, according to a 2025 analysis by researchers at the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank.

This gradual release of responsibility routine helps students hear what fluent, expressive reading sounds like, practice with support, and then read with expression on their own.