Back in her early days of teaching, Rebecca Bergey thought it was her job as a teacher of English learners to prepare her students with enough language to survive in content area classes. But as ...

I began my English language education in university and have since achieved a level of proficiency surpassing many who started learning in middle school. This experience has shaped my belief that ...

For years, many academics have questioned the importance — even the justice — of requiring college students to master standard English. The discussion 20 or 30 years ago was about a student’s right to ...

(On California has been exploring the twin topics of budget flexibility under the state’s Local Control Funding Formula and the problems of educating its 1.4 million English Learners, a third of the ...

Many English Learners (ELs) across the United States have gone months without exposure to the academic English they require for success in school and that they would normally receive in formal ...

For years, K-12 schools have grouped English learners in classrooms, driven by factors including limited resources and the intention to provide targeted language instruction to students with similar ...

Vu Van had always been confident in her English speaking skills. Growing up in Nha Trang, Vietnam, she studied English in school and with a private tutor. Her schoolteachers were particularly strict ...