Report: English-learning students struggling

About one-third of Texas students who don’t speak English as their first language are not making progress in learning it, compared with about a quarter of such students nationwide, according to a national report being released today.

“A lot of progress has been made in recent years to understand who (English-language learners) are and how they perform in school,” said Christopher Swanson, the director of Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, which authored the report. “But it is clear that many of these students are struggling.”

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