The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment consortium—or WIDA—has released its new edition of English-language-development standards that are directly linked to the common-core standards in ...

California education officials are moving ahead to revamp the state’s English-language development standards so that they are aligned with the academic demands of the common-core standards in ...

California is taking another step forward in enacting the new Common Core for English language arts by gathering public comment on new guidelines and standards, State Superintendent of Public ...

Assembly Bill 714, recently signed into law, requires the California Department of Education to report the number of newcomer students and offer best practices for teaching them. A course on plastic ...

Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if California is to narrow the wide and persistent gaps in math test scores between its nearly 1.4 million ...

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 ...

When: Hempfield education and programs, policy, personnel, and legal school board committee meeting, June 15. What happened: District officials proposed updates to the secondary math course and ...

Just over half of public school students who took the state’s standardized English language arts test performed at grade level, while only 4 in 10 are proficient in math, scores that represent a slow ...

In Aurora, high school students who are learning English as a new language spend 45 minutes per day in a class specifically designed to help them improve their language skills. But their teachers have ...