Learning English may be a challenge for some Latinos, but it’s not the main educational problem for most of them, argue Patricia Gandara and Frances Contreras in a new book, The Latino Education ...
This article originally appeared on Undark. Wikipedia doesn’t exactly enjoy a reputation as the most reliable source on the internet. But a report released in June by the Wikimedia Foundation, which ...
A student walks down the hall at ourBRIDGE for Kids, an afterschool program for immigrant and refugee children in Charlotte. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...
You would think with all the money Ohio State students and their parents spend on tuition each year the university could afford to hire instructors that speak our native language, English. Don’t get ...
As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...
English Language Learners (ELLs) at risk for math disabilities (MD) are challenged in solving word problems for numerous reasons such as (a) learning English as a second language, (b) limited ...
Students who can't understand instructions for math problems face unnecessary barriers to achievement. Students who don’t read well or lack crucial vocabulary often face unnecessary obstacles—not just ...
SITTING ON A muddy floor beneath a tarpaulin roof, Nabila, a 19-year-old Bangladeshi, fiddles with her shoelaces as she listens to Tosmida, a Rohingya woman in her mid-30s. Both are crying. Nabila, a ...