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Secondary Schools' Bilingual Gap: Promising Practices and a Path Forward
How can states and districts expand bilingual education access and better serve 2.3 million EL students in secondary schools?
Native Language Assessments for K-12 English Learners: A 2025 State-Level Snapshot
As of 2025, a growing number of states offered assessments of academic knowledge for K-12 English Learners in their home languages. Still, gaps persisted.
The ESSA Waiver Landscape and Implications for K-12 English Learners
Focused on the federal government's invitation to states to seek waivers of their obligations under the Every Student Succeeds Act, this discussion explored what waivers mean for English Learners.
Graduating into Uncertainty: Unauthorized Immigrant Students in U.S. High Schools
About 75,000 unauthorized immigrants graduate from U.S. high schools annually, MPI estimates. Amid immigration policy and enforcement changes, many are graduating into uncertainty.
The Young Lives Uprooted by Climate Change
When climate disasters strike, who bears the longest-lasting consequences — and what does the evidence show about the particular vulnerability of children?
All in for a Thriving Connecticut: Opportunities to Support Upward Mobility for the State’s Immigrant Families
With immigrants driving all population growth since 2006, Connecticut has opportunities to promote the upward mobility of immigrant families for overall societal benefit.
Slipping through the Cracks in South Korea: The Uncertain Futures for the Children of North Korean Defectors
Children born in China to North Korean mothers are a fast-growing but legally overlooked population in South Korea, falling outside defector support programs.
The Fragile Yet Unmistakable Long-Term Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
More than a decade into Syria’s civil war, more than 1.4 million Syrians in Jordan faced fragile, partial integration, with return uncertain and donor support declining.
