The melting pot metaphor is stronger than ever in American schools today. With 40 million foreign-born residents currently in the U.S., 17 percent of whom have entered the country between 2005 and ...
Theodora Chang discusses the benefits of No Child Left Behind waivers for English language learners and English as a second language teachers. Westside High School English Language Learners teacher ...
The district’s English Language Arts achievement is rising along with mathematics scores improving. Additionally, fewer ...
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $2.5 million to Miami University to support the Preparing English Learner Educational Allies (PELEA) program and improve English language instruction ...
When sixth-grader Rene Quintana stumbled over reading the word “difficulty,” his teacher Betsy Perna prodded him to “break it down.” Quintana, who originally is from Mexico, is working on his English ...
Illinois districts are seeing an increase in proficiency rates in math and English after the state changed some benchmarks in ...