GRAND FORKS - Third-grader Amrit Adhikari couldn’t get enough of the story about the girl and her bike. At Winship Elementary in Grand Forks, he and other students recently listened to their teacher ...
I love teaching English-language learners and I suspect most other educators feel the same way. Nevertheless, teaching anyone comes with all sorts of challenges, and ELLs are no different. Today’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the last decade, Lucerne Valley Middle High School has met the challenges of teaching an influx of students whose native ...
At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...
New Hampshire's new parental rights law requires schools to obtain consent from parents to audio record students. That posed a challenge for schools that must audio record nearly 5,800 English ...
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 ...
For English learners, acquiring language proficiency opens the door to thrive across all subjects. However, learning a new language can be a long, difficult process that requires courage, resilience ...
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 ...
Indianapolis Public Schools is in significant financial trouble. The school corporation is cutting $7 million from its budget next year, which will mean fewer resources will be available for students ...
Two prominent California advocacy organizations for English learners are firmly opposing a new state bill that would mandate that reading instruction be aligned with the “science of reading,” saying ...
I still remember a student I taught in Virginia early in my career. He was maybe 13 or 14, and he’d come to this country on a raft. People died on that journey. When he arrived, he couldn’t read in ...
You can also read this article in Welsh. In the year ending September 2022, more than 70,000 people had claimed asylum in the UK. The vast majority were from countries that do not use English as a ...