If well used, primary-language instruction is a tool that can help us provide greater success for English-learners in English. If the Bush administration is serious about “leaving no child behind” in ...

The practice of English learning apps and games will encourage your child to perform regular exercises. Learning becomes more enjoyable when students view it as games, which decreases their fear of ...

That's one way to keep the memory of 'P.T.' alive: making it an educational tool to help schoolkids learn another language.

MyBuddy.ai, a startup that develops virtual tools to help kids learn English, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from LETA Capital. The capital will be used to expand into ...

GRAND FORKS -- Immigration is changing the population profile of students in the United States. There are more children of immigrant parentage in the schools today than ever before. Some have limited ...

While PBS itself won’t shut down anytime soon, they have now lost their largest source of financial support. This loss more directly impacts the local stations that viewers turn to. Not only does PBS ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

The challenge is that children at this age are still developing language skills. In the past, students would sometimes cry ...

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 ...

Chancellor Richard Carranza’s shakeup of services for more than 150,000 kids who are learning English in the public schools is running into trouble, concerned staffers charge. Carranza, the bilingual ...

A pervasive idea assumes that young children can absorb new languages with minimal effort, but it turns out that the science is more complicated. By Lindsay Patterson This story was originally ...

Parents coercing children to speak only English, despite good intentions, can harm their language development, emotional health and family ties. Studies indicate this pressure causes anxiety, ...