Years ago, the Beaverton school district in Oregon participated in a study to determine the right models for improving English learners’ academic achievement. The results, which came out in 2019, ...

Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged that leave teachers of English learners puzzled: First, does research on reading, ...

Many children enter school in California speaking languages other than English, and they learn to read at the same time that they are learning English. As California aims to improve literacy ...

The Oct. 27 editorial, “Boston needs more bilingual education classrooms,” is correct that Boston needs more dual-language programs. In fact, all of Massachusetts needs them. Speaking a second ...

Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

Twenty years ago, when I started my career as an ESL teacher in Houston, Texas, I remember the struggles of teaching persuasive writing to English learners. I had students who were bright, ...

Boston College’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program is designed to prepare future English language educators with the essential skills, knowledge, and ...

Leer en Español. When Stephanie, then 16, traveled by herself from Honduras to the U.S. last spring to reunite with her father in New Orleans, she was lonely and afraid. She didn’t know what to expect ...

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher ...

The Trump administration has quietly rescinded long-standing guidance that directed schools to accommodate students who are learning English, alarming advocates who fear that schools will stop ...

As the Trump administration pulls back support for English language learners, Michigan is rolling out new requirements for schools to educate those students. Starting this school year, Michigan ...