Rosalinda B. Barrera, the new director of the U.S. Department of Education’s office of English-language acquisition, has a strong interest in improving science instruction for English-language ...

With the new Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA), the federal government has made teaching English Language Learners a priority through stronger accountability provisions and the authorization of ...

Nevada's latest lousy performance in national school assessments creates the impression that most of the state's students are academic failures. But that's not an accurate picture. In reality, a ...

The teacher holds up a book, “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn Buehner, and reads to 13 pre-schoolers at Prescott Elementary. As Danae Martin reads the story of a boy imagining what happened to his ...

This area of emphasis provides a strong knowledge base grounded in current research to support students who are learning English as a new language, assess skills of language diverse students, and ...

As a curriculum and learning specialist at an elementary school in Verona, Wisconsin, l have the opportunity to work with amazing educators and students of all cultures; as a prior bilingual resource ...

Nevada schools have the largest percentage of English Language Learners in the country. Those are students whose first language wasn't English, and maybe not the language spoken at home. Nevada ...

Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones has created an assistant superintendent position to oversee a new English Language Learner department. The district has 53,000 ELL students.

This spring, UND will launch two online graduate programs to help educators learn the skills and techniques necessary to work with a growing population of English language learners. UND's online ...

Katrina Lujan’s 13-or-so seventh-graders appeared lively last Friday afternoon as they laughed and joked with one another during a class break at Challenger Middle School. While most of the students ...

Multilingualism also provides social-emotional benefits, such as increased self-confidence, stronger connection to family and community and preparedness for living and working in settings with a ...

STORM LAKE, Ia. — Inside a high school classroom in this northwest Iowa town, teenagers from Central America and Asia gather in a circle, playing a game where they spot a picture and say the English ...