Middle and high school-aged English-language learners who are deemed English-proficient still often struggle to grasp math and English/language arts lessons, a recently released study found. The study ...

NASHUA – Most days, Danielle Boutin leaves work feeling as though she has failed. As one of precious few teachers to serve the 179 English Language Learners at Ledge Street Elementary School, she sees ...

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On a spring morning in 2015, a dozen educators gathered in the White House’s historic Roosevelt Room to speak with President Obama about the most pressing issues that urban school leaders faced. As ...

The Amphitheater Public Schools district has 959 English-language learners receiving the required four hours of English instruction daily. Amphi is satisfying the state mandate with four-hour blocks ...

Although the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides an official definition of a limited English proficiency (LEP) student, or English language learner (ELL) student, the act leaves it ...

The teacher holds up a book, “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn Buehner, and reads to 13 pre-schoolers at Prescott Elementary. As Danae Martin reads the story of a boy imagining what happened to his ...

For approximately 5 million K-12 students in the United States, the typical school day has an additional, important learning component: becoming proficient in the English language. Michigan has the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brockton Public Schools has 304 fewer English learners compared to last school year, bucking a trend of increasing enrollment ...

PHOENIX — A children’s advocacy group plans to monitor State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne’s efforts related to instruction for English-language learners, saying they’re concerned ...