Children and youth learning English require better support for academic success

Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs) – who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the US – lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational achievement, in part because schools do not provide adequate instruction and social-emotional support to acquire English proficiency or access to academic subjects at the appropriate grade level, says a new report.

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