Bridging the digital divide and tailoring ed tech tools to ELL students’ needs can help schools ensure they’re learning and thriving. Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her ...

As a curriculum and learning specialist at an elementary school in Verona, Wisconsin, l have the opportunity to work with amazing educators and students of all cultures; as a prior bilingual resource ...

WILLMAR, Minn. - The third-grader lay on the floor on his stomach on the fringe of a group of students, working intently in his math workbook. He looks up at teacher Courtney Hauge and said, "I did it ...

(This the fourth post in a six-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are some of the most common mistakes teachers make ...

Katie Crook, a teacher in Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, wrote letters to her ELL students after she did not hear back from their parents through other means.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sink or swim. That's the best way Linna Jordan can describe her experience as a new American in Ohio. "I originally came here in 1981. I was 8 years old," she said, "You were just ...

Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...

A kindergarten teacher in a San Diego public school last fall referred six of her students—all English-language learners—for evaluation for special education. All of them, as it turned out, needed ...

The district has about 145 ELL students in its 16 schools, though that could change after the students are tested, he said. When school started this year, districts across the state were supposed to ...

The growth in the number of students learning English is one of several ways the district is becoming more diverse. It might be easy to miss, but the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is changing.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAFF) - A Senate bill concerning test scores of English Language Learner students is now in a House committee and one step closer to a final vote. Sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr, ...