Schools are required to test the progress of their English learners each year to determine whether they still need language instruction services or can exit out of such programs. In close to 40 states ...

NEW ORLEANS — It’s testing time again for public school students in Louisiana. For many who did not learn English as a primary language, it’s also an anxiety-inducing reminder that a single test could ...

While abysmal math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exams have parents and educators worried about students’ futures, English learners made a surprising gain, scoring four ...

State test data shows more English learners are meeting growth targets in the district. However, some educators say there are ...

A change to how a widely used English-proficiency test is scored has led to thousands of students being retained in English-language-learner classes and created budgeting and staffing challenges for ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. If you look at English learners’ third-grade reading scores in English at Dolores Huerta International Academy, a dual-language immersion ...

Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Jefferson County Public Schools have seen a significant increase in the number of non-native English speakers over the last five years. As the district tries to educate these ...

Despite the often reasoned protestations heard from many of our colleagues in the civil rights community, in the early nineties, the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) stepped aboard ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English when they ...