Florida education officials on Wednesday signaled that the Sunshine State is all but ready to join WIDA, a group of states that share common-core aligned English-language-proficiency standards and ...

WestEd researchers today released a guide they’d been working on for 18 months, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, to help states create standards and tests for English-language ...

AB 2555, authored by Assemblymember Darshana Patel, passed the state Assembly in May with virtually no opposition.

In the safety-critical field of aviation, miscommunication and/or misunderstanding can lead to a runway incident or accident, or worse, a midair collision. [Credit: Shutterstock] Miscommunication due ...

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 requires states to annually assess the English language proficiency of their students who are classified as limited English proficiency (LEP), also referred ...

The melting pot metaphor is stronger than ever in American schools today. With 40 million foreign-born residents currently in the U.S., 17 percent of whom have entered the country between 2005 and ...

US-based students learning English in tandem with other coursework subjects such as STEM are being ‘let down’ by language proficiency standards according to an NYU professor. According to Okhee Lee ...

Although non-native English speaking students are just as capable as their peers of learning subject matter in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields, they face additional ...