Students with disabilities face a gamut of challenges when it comes to accessing high-quality K-12 education, including a shortage of specialized teachers. The nation’s growing English-learner ...

The English learner population in the United States stands at about 5.2 million students. Sixteen percent of these students also have disabilities. So, in addition to English-language instruction, ...

María Mejía hugs her 7-year-old son Joangel as they spend time in a park after school. Special education students continue to be underrepresented in Boston Public Schools' dual language programs.

English learners and students with disabilities are under-identified as gifted and talented, but states that have specific policies requiring schools to offer services enroll these students at much ...

Iowa students with disabilities and English language learners continue to lag behind their peers in English language arts and mathematics new spring 2024 state assessment data shows. The 2024 spring ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Philip S. Cicero, retired superintendent of Lynbrook Public Schools. Recently released New York State School Report Card data show that the high school ...

Imagine yourself back in school, and each student in your class is reading a section of a story. As your turn approaches, you get more and more nervous. Nothing could be worse than having to read in ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Simón López, the ...

State education leaders have released a much-anticipated guide for teaching English learners with disabilities, a document, they believe, that will help to identify, assess, support and reclassify ...

The Great Divide is an investigative series that explores educational inequality in Boston and statewide. Sign up to receive our newsletter, and send ideas and tips to [email protected]. His ...

NJ school for language-based learning disabilities: Ask the Experts panel; Dr. L. Praslova. This episode visits a New Jersey private school that attacks language-based learning disabilities with ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Jefferson County Public Schools is facing a major increase in students with disabilities and students whose first language isn’t English — and the district says meeting those ...