Difficult content can be taught in clear and transparent language and without jargon so that students wrestle with the idea ...

Twenty-one Bowdoin student teachers helped stage a multilingual shadow puppet performance for local elementary school children recently. It’s a part of a program to promote tolerance and to advance ...

But an in-depth look at the science behind how language is developed reveals an interesting parallel between the science of reading and second language learning. In fact, the science of reading can ...

Cindy Garcia has been a bilingual educator for 17 years and is currently a districtwide specialist for bilingual/ESL mathematics. She is active on Twitter @CindyGarciaTX and on her blog: One of the ...

Adria Swiney, a May graduate with a degree in modern languages with a concentration in Russian language and literature, is serving as a teaching assistant for the Russian Summer Language Institute.

Does humanities education still have value when machines can generate art at the touch of a button? Yes, if we reframe our ...

If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

A group of New Haven Academy freshmen leaned over their desks, closely reading a short passage of text to try to understand ...

Originally published Jan. 2 on IdahoEdNews.org.Sierra Atkins has brought her love for the Spanish language, Latin-American ...

Approximately 1 million students in the United States are immigrants who have attended schools in the country for less than three years. Close to 700,000 students are undocumented, and about 7 percent ...

The number of non-English speaking students in Springfield City Schools has more than quadrupled — up 350 percent in four years — including hundreds of Haitian immigrants, prompting the district to ...