Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. As California expands transitional kindergarten, English learner advocates are urging school districts to prioritize children learning ...

Since English is the second language in the country and is widely used, it is imperative to learn it, especially for children, since they will be exposed to it on a global scale. Even if the parents' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One in 10 public school students in the United States is classified as an English learner. Yet, many educators report feeling ...

Pecan Springs Elementary, still waiting for construction to finish on its new permanent campus, is one of 28 dual-language AISD schools under attack from TEA Credit: photos by Sammie Seamon Pecan ...

The Importance of English Proficiency Parents aspire for their children to communicate confidently in English, both verbally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Learning English can be a challenge for nonnative speakers, and particularly for children who must do so as they adapt to life in ...

Bilingual pre-K teacher Atenea Raptis coaches her students on their letter sounds and numbers. In 1980, when Patricia Cantu started kindergarten in Houston, there wasn't much bilingual education at ...

Two children sit in different schools. Both struggle to read. Both have similar low scores on national tests. But while one ...

English as a second language students can practice by reading books about their culture. For children who are learning English as their second language, it can be beneficial to read books that relate ...

A year ago, the kindergartners learning English in Tanya Gan Lim's class were thriving. Back then, she'd bring in props and pictures to help her students learn the language and sound out words. Then ...

It must be difficult to face an abrupt shift in language when one is just learning to speak--so thought Rena Krakow, the mother of an adopted Chinese girl, and Jenny Roberts, the aunt of an adopted ...