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 ...

Growing up, a lot of kids don't communicate in English, except at school. While it is perfectly fine to keep the medium of communication as per one's geography aka mother tongue, the English language ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. As California expands transitional kindergarten, English learner advocates are urging school districts to prioritize children learning ...

Learning English can be a challenge for nonnative speakers, and particularly for children who must do so as they adapt to life in a new country and continue learning other subjects. Yet education ...

Since English is the second language in the country and is widely used, it is imperative to learn it, especially for children, since they will be exposed to it on a global scale. Even if the parents' ...

If you’re enrolling your child in California state-subsidized preschool this fall, you’ll be asked new questions about what languages they speak and understand. It’s part of a new effort to identify ...

It must be difficult to face an abrupt shift in language when one is just learning to speak--so thought Rena Krakow, the mother of an adopted Chinese girl, and Jenny Roberts, the aunt of an adopted ...

Pecan Springs Elementary, still waiting for construction to finish on its new permanent campus, is one of 28 dual-language AISD schools under attack from TEA Credit: photos by Sammie Seamon Pecan ...

Matt Westerberg is currently teaching 9th grade English to Ethiopian children as part of the Peace Corps. In an essay for Alternative Nation, Westerberg, a 1990s alternative fan, tells a story about ...

Pecan Springs Elementary is made up of two uniform rows of beige, metal portable buildings sitting on a pad of cement, nestled in a circle of chain-link fence. Pecan Springs students and families have ...