On schools adapting to serve English learners during the pandemic.
I co-authored a Californians Together report on how well school districts took English learners’ needs into account in their planning for this school year. I wrote a column for the Hechinger Report on how pre-pandemic educational inequities should shape schools’ post-pandemic planning for English learners.
On how data from the spring hints at how schools can better support English learners in the fall.
On the critical importance of engaging students’ families while schools are closed.
On how bilingual education is at risk of becoming a tool for primarily serving the privileged.
On the importance of supporting English learners in the Trump era.
On ways that Washington, DC can promote equitable access to multilingual schools for English learning students.
On efforts to welcome immigrants and refugees in Georgia.
On an immigrant-led school in Georgia getting great results for immigrant kids.
On how US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ embrace of charter schools is—paradoxically—harming these schools.
