A handful of first-graders sit cross-legged on a rainbow-colored rug with their eyes fixed on Katherine Craig, the reading specialist at Oak Ridge Elementary in Sacramento. She’s in charge of a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in EdSource. California education officials are tasked with a difficult mission over the ...

A report from the National Center on Time and Learning explores how three U.S. schools are using expanded school days to provide extra support for English-language learners. The report profiles two ...

For years, foreign students in Florida who entered the U.S. school system had one year to catch up to their peers before they had to start taking state achievement tests. Many underperformed – ...

A report about English learner students in San Diego and Los Angeles shows that resource teachers and language development classes help boost these students’ progress. But those supports may be harder ...

It’s a complaint heard often in the U.S. these days — most recently from a shopkeeper with a now-notorious sign in Clifton. It’s also a criticism older than the country itself. Years before the United ...