Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. High school senior Martha Hernandez was born in Baja California, Mexico, and came to the U.S. when she was 10 years old, in fifth grade. She ...

A report about English learner students in San Diego and Los Angeles shows that resource teachers and language development classes help boost these students’ progress. But those supports may be harder ...

"It's really going to help them succeed," said a nursing instructor at Modesto Junior College.

After a year's worth of night classes on Friday and day-long classes on Saturday to certify her as a teacher of English-language learners, Fremont Elementary School teacher Karin Randle plans to do ...

Language is the most insightful weapon that mankind attains, but it can also be the most blinding. As a young girl, I came to America with dreams of prosperity and triumph and it seemed as if the ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

A student walks down the hall at ourBRIDGE for Kids, an afterschool program for immigrant and refugee children in Charlotte. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

Grading can be one of the banes of a teacher’s existence. An added complication can be when an English-language learner is in a “mainstream” content-subject class—what are the best ways a teacher can ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Metro High School's first English Language Learner teacher Andrew Trout is both teacher and student in his classroom. Trout is teaching 10 students from eight countries - Mexico, ...