Nosa Ali remembers holding her kindergarten report card in her hands, inspecting the words despite not knowing what they said. A refugee whose family fled civil war in Sudan, Ali couldn’t read or ...

Professional development for teachers of multilingual learners? Cancelled. Newcomer centers opened to ease immigrant students ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Wendi Pillars, author of Visual Notetaking for Educators and a National Board Certified English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher at Jordan-Matthews High School in Siler City, ...

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 ...

Bridging the digital divide and tailoring ed tech tools to ELL students’ needs can help schools ensure they’re learning and thriving. Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her ...

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 ...

In Essex County, Newark’s public schools have reported the biggest enrollment percentage gains in recent years. Essex ...

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 ...

The state Senate was poised to vote Thursday on a bill that would allow English language learners to be taught academic subjects in their own languages if they are not yet fluent in English. The move ...