Almost one in 10 U.S. students in grades K-12 — about 5 million children total — are pulling double duty in school, learning English as a second language while absorbing math, science, social studies ...

Veen Tovi used to watch the other kids playing or talking to each other while she was in English-language classes. There was a big part of Tovi that wanted to be just like those kids in her school — ...