When I started teaching in California’s public schools 30 years ago, it was the beginning of the so-called English-only movement. “Qualified teachers” for multilingual learners were chosen to teach if ...

Errors and mistakes are common in the classroom and in education. And I’ve published many posts about them. Today, educators share their strategies for handling errors made by students in their ...

On a spring morning in 2015, a dozen educators gathered in the White House’s historic Roosevelt Room to speak with President Obama about the most pressing issues that urban school leaders faced. As ...

Megan Sommers projects her computer screen for her class of English language learners on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, at Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill. (Photo by Anastasia ...

I spend my days with immigrants who are working toward education, opportunity and a better future for their families, ESL instructor Clark Murphy writes in a guest column.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many, if not all education systems worldwide. In Virginia, recent data indicates that the Standards of Learning (SOL) test scores have not yet returned to pre-pandemic ...

In eighth grade, Pedro Marra’s parents told him and his brother Vinny they were going to pack everything up from their home in the bustling city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, for a new opportunity in Iowa ...

PHOENIX — A children’s advocacy group plans to monitor State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne’s efforts related to instruction for English-language learners, saying they’re concerned ...

The state law requires schools to get written parental permission to take audio recordings of students, including the state’s ...

Students from Iraq, Mexico and Burma are driving an unprecedented increase in the number of English Language Learners at Lincoln Public Schools, prompting officials to budget $1.2 million to hire ...

The number of non-English speaking students in Springfield City Schools has more than quadrupled — up 350 percent in four years — including hundreds of Haitian immigrants, prompting the district to ...