Fifteen sets of teenage eyes stared blankly at me as I introduced myself on the first day of school. I was teaching a course that was part of a brand-new program in my district. I knew the students in ...

Dr. Robyn Edwards, Assistant Professor of TESOL, Department of Special Education and Literacy Studies KALAMAZOO, Mich.—With a growing number of students entering U.S. classrooms speaking little or no ...

Enrolling students new to the United States brings many variables schools and districts need to sort out, including potential language barriers and limited transcript documents. While many districts ...

Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Unidos. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. No need to hop over to Google Translate.

Today’s post is the latest in a series sharing teachers’ favorite lessons for English- language-learner newcomers. Even though the school year is over, or near its end, for most of us, it’s never too ...

Every year, K-12 schools across the country welcome hundreds of thousands of newcomers – foreign-born students who have migrated, are seeking asylum, are refugees, are undocumented or are ...