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, ...
Marlena Young-Jones has taught in Russellville City Schools for almost 11 years. Most of that time was spent as a 2nd grade general elementary teacher. In her last 2nd grade class at West Elementary, ...
Exam results from areas which dropped English have declined, the education minister says, announcing the U-turn.
Teaching English by pure “look-say” —the theory that children need only recognize shapes of whole words rather than individual letters or syllables—is discredited in the U.S.; 30 years of trying it ...