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For Many Immigrant Students, Remote Learning During COVID-19 Comes with More Hurdles

Government Technology: Schools across the U.S. responded to the COVID-19 pandemic last spring with an unprecedented shift to remote learning – a trend that has continued into the new school year for many districts.

Millions of children now use laptops and tablets at home as part of their daily education. This arrangement is neither ideal nor easy. But immigrant students who are still learning English – often called English learners – face additional complications. Remote learning can be especially challenging for the roughly 5 million students in U.S. schools who are already confronting significant linguistic, sociocultural and economic challenges as they navigate learning a new language and their schoolwork simultaneously.

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