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English learners tend to spend most of the school day in mainstream classrooms with content-area teachers who often do not know how to teach language through academic content. To address this gap, English-language development specialists in Maryland’s Montgomery County district have been coaching their content-area peers on how to identify and teach academic language across subjects.

Thanks to imprints, including Penguin Random House’s inclusive Kokila and, particularly, HarperCollins’s Heartdrum, centering Indigenous voices curated by author Cynthia Leitich Smith, the shelves are slowly but definitively growing. Here you’ll find 20 titles highlighting Indigenous creators and casts, all published in 2026. Listen in indeed!

Even when phones are removed from classrooms, students may feel restless and fidgety, so a teacher developed this simple reading-readiness routine.

The results of Tuesday’s midterm elections will reverberate across K-12 education for years to come—including fresh opportunities for increased school investments alongside new funding constraints in some places.

The new West Putnam Green Schoolyard includes 50 new trees and drought-tolerant landscaping that will provide shade and foliage for students in Porterville, a small agricultural city in the Central Valley where triple-digit days and dry spells aren’t uncommon. Porterville Unified is not the only school district in the state trying to make its campuses more resilient to climate change. But students here have played an unusually active role in the process. They’ve helped design the playgrounds, studied their environmental impact and turned the new green spaces into outdoor classrooms. 

The population of children under age 18 began to fall nationwide after 2010, according to U.S. Census data, dropping by roughly 2.1 million kids through 2025. This is the first time in nearly a century, since the era of the Great Depression, that birth rates and immigration levels are low at the same time. Large-scale deportations mean even bigger and more rapid changes in areas with large immigrant communities.

English learners tend to spend most of the school day in mainstream classrooms with content-area teachers who often do not know how to teach language through academic content. To address this gap, English-language development specialists in Maryland’s Montgomery County district have been coaching their content-area peers on how to identify and teach academic language across subjects.

While visits to libraries have not yet rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, they are growing, in part because their program offerings are expanding. Adults and children in the U.S. made more than 800 million visits to a library in 2023, an average of 2.2 million visits per day and nearly double the number in 2021. There are over 17,000 public library locations in the United States — more than the number of hospitals or McDonald’s. 

As Head Start faces a proposal to end bilingual education, remember that children aren’t the only ones who benefit from multiple languages.

Researchers and advocates across the country are applauding new legislation that streamlines how students exit English-learner status in California.