While states with some of the largest English-learner populations, such as California and Texas, use their own exams, most states rely on the WIDA ACCESS test to fulfill federal requirements for ...

Russian and Egyptian officials opened an international Russian Language Conference in Cairo this week, bringing together ...

Here’s a collection of the English-learner-focused stories that resonated most with EdWeek readers in 2025. In July, the U.S.

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

Contrary to the minister’s poor performance excuse, there is evidence of progress with mother tongue teaching in the last ...

British judges are renowned across the world for their devastating command of the English language when sending criminals ...

Desperate Welsh-medium schools are having to bring in teachers who only speak English in order to plug staffing gaps, a ...

We can work out a good national system with the best parts of Chinese schools and national schools, but private education threatens to divide us through class and wealth.

Welsh-medium schools facing severe staffing shortages are being forced to recruit English-only speaking teachers to fill ...

A handwritten note has sparked fury and disbelief online after a parent drew attention not to the child’s performance—but to the teacher’s own errors.

“There is that sense of Irish not being all that important, so you can opt out,” he says, believing it is often the “first ...

Massachusetts started 2025 scrambling for a replacement to the voter-overturned MCAS graduation standard. A first look at a ...