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When Gaby Pacheco was applying to college, her high school counselor discouraged her from applying anywhere. As an undocumented student, she could get herself and her family in trouble, the counselor warned. Pacheco is now president and CEO of TheDream.US, the nation’s largest college scholarship provider for undocumented students.

In her award-winning entry for NPR's Student Podcast challenge, Ameya Desai interviews her grandfather, Kishor Desai, whose family migrated from India to Uganda, where Kishor was born and raised. His father worked at a sugarcane factory outside of Uganda's capital, Kampala.

Here's how to build a culture of reading to welcome students who are learning a new language, particularly those who come from strong oral storytelling traditions.

School and district leaders are navigating questions from educators, students, and families on how safe schools are from deportations after the Trump administration rescinded a policy protecting schools from immigration enforcement actions. But just how many students and families would be affected by changes to immigration policies? That number — likely in the tens of millions — stretches beyond estimates of an undocumented immigrant population, researchers said.

Studying the lives of mathematicians can help elementary students discover a positive math identity for themselves.

Denver Public Schools is taking the Trump administration to court in an effort to keep immigration enforcement away from schools locally and across the country.

A new bill in Utah addressing rapid growth of ELL enrollment has the support of many, but some worry it may not serve schools that have historically needed help serving English learners

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona championed multilingualism for all students, as well as improved programming for the nation’s English learners. One of the last major projects he oversaw in his tenure at the U.S. Department of Education was the office of English language acquisition’s dual-language immersion project: a publication of four playbooks with detailed guidance for educators on how to establish and sustain dual-language immersion programs.

In a tight labor market where businesses struggle to find qualified workers, three states have discovered that investing in English language learning is unleashing untapped economic potential and building a more resilient workforce.

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, today announced the 2025 Ezra Jack Keats Award winners. The annual award is given to early career authors and illustrators for excellence in portraying the multicultural nature of the world.