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 ...

NORWALK — When Oscar Cortez moved to Norwalk in 2013 and enrolled in high school, he worried about all the normal things new high school students worry about. But he also faced a hurdle most students ...

Three years ago, Kevin Pineda—who came to the United States from Guatemala at age 6—was failing or struggling in nearly all his classes at Fairfax High School here. He was on the verge of following ...

Margo Gottlieb answered questions about what it takes to create English-language-proficiency standards and assessments and how those tools can be used to improve instruction. Educators have struggled ...

For many of the 4.5 million English language learners (ELLs) in elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Supporting ELLs ...

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 ...

Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...

“These failures disproportionately impact Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali, and Arabic-speaking communities, with Spanish-speaking students representing 67 percent of all ELLs,” said the Comptroller ...

Punjabi students are pictured here in August during a Whiteland High School Punjabi class. The growing Punjabi population is driving much of the demand for English Language Learner classes at the ...

The English Language Learners (ELL) population in Springfield City Schools has steadily increased over the last few years by 630 students, according to new district data. ELL students are those whose ...