California education officials are tasked with a difficult mission over the next few months — finding the best way to figure ...

If well used, primary-language instruction is a tool that can help us provide greater success for English-learners in English. If the Bush administration is serious about “leaving no child behind” in ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

Spanish-speaking parents looking to help their children learn English should start by developing their literacy and numeracy in their first language, according to recently published research from the ...

GRAND FORKS -- Immigration is changing the population profile of students in the United States. There are more children of immigrant parentage in the schools today than ever before. Some have limited ...

The practice of English learning apps and games will encourage your child to perform regular exercises. Learning becomes more enjoyable when students view it as games, which decreases their fear of ...

Students and parents came out for the International Newcomer Academy’s Back to School Drive on the campus in Fort Worth, Texas, on Aug. 14. The school not only provides an intense language and ...

That's one way to keep the memory of 'P.T.' alive: making it an educational tool to help schoolkids learn another language.

A year ago, the kindergartners learning English in Tanya Gan Lim's class were thriving. Back then, she'd bring in props and pictures to help her students learn the language and sound out words. Then ...

Just over 20 years ago, a small group of Latino parents in Los Angeles launched a movement that forever changed American public education. For years they had been concerned that their local elementary ...

Immigrant children still mastering the English language risk being shuffled into special education services they don't need, because of errors in assessment for speech problems, according to a new ...

Parents coercing children to speak only English, despite good intentions, can harm their language development, emotional health and family ties. Studies indicate this pressure causes anxiety, ...