In what ways has the road map been applied? The largest school district in California, Los Angeles Unified, serves over 550,000 K-12 students, including about 92,000 English learners. The district ...

Nick Mireles is a writer on the central coast of California. He has a knack for film, music, and Dungeons and Dragons. When he’s not writing, he tries to spend his days reading, surfing, and camping ...

Last year, I decided to start learning Korean. It was entirely on a whim — I don’t live in Korea and have no reason I’d ever need to go there. Nonetheless, it’s been an incredibly rewarding experience ...

How should we teach reading to English learners? Join EdSource for a roundtable discussion to delve deeper into what the research says about teaching reading to children learning in a second language ...

The terminology used to classify students in need of specialized support to acquire the English language in public schools has shifted over time, gradually embracing more positive connotations of ...

WASHINGTON – Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs) -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S. -- lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

YOKOHAMA--Teacher Yumiko Imanishi wrestled with the fact that some students form a negative view of English after entering high school. With this in mind, she embarked on a project to foster more ...