Here’s a collection of the English-learner-focused stories that resonated most with EdWeek readers in 2025. In July, the U.S.

For district leaders considering strategies to support English learners in K-12 schools today, AI tools have the potential to offer instant support. These tools can not only support language ...

The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...

Rosemary Salomone, a linguist and a lawyer, is a professor of law at St. John’s University in New York. Her most recent book is The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language. Back in ...

THE RISE OF ENGLISH Global Politics and the Power of Language By Rosemary Salomone “Every time the question of language surfaces,” the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote, “in one way or ...

Glancing at any page William Shakespeare wrote can make you feel like you have returned to the Elizabethan era. It isn’t just high school, college, and drama school that provide a reason to explore ...

Picture this: A group of nonnative English speakers is in a room. There are people from Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Nigeria and France. They're having a great time speaking to each other in ...

Standard English is the form of English that is taught around the world and understood by all speakers of the language. Non-standard English is the informal version of the language, which can change ...