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1 in 10 US students are English learners

  • Written by Jennifer Mata-McMahon, Associate Professor of Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1 in 10 US students are English learnersDual-language instruction can help children grow up to be bilingual.Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images1 in 10 US students are English learners

More than 1 in 10 of the nation’s approximately 50 million public school students speak a native language other than English, according to the latest federal data. Roughly 3 in 4 of these English learners speak Spanish.

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