As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

This post is by Monica Alatorre, Senior Manager for Development & Communications at Envision Education. The scene: A typical traditional math class in America. The players: A student who is an English ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Teaching preschool children simple math-related vocabulary and concepts, such as "more," "a lot," "some" and "fewer," improves their mathematical skills, according to a new a ...

Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, shows hows how Seattle students are learning foreign languages so they can compete in a global ...

This week’s question is: What are the best strategies for teaching Common Core math to English language learners? I can speak from experience in saying that Common Core has not made it any easier to ...

A new study finds that a child's language skills in kindergarten can predict his or her future proficiency in other subjects. Research shows that the more skills children bring with them to ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

WEBVTT A NEW BILL LOOKING AT THE WAY CALIFORNIA STUDENTS ARE TESTED IN SCHOOLS COULD TABLE -- BIG NEWS FOR SCHOOL KIDS AND FOR TEACHERS. MAE FESAI IS LOOKING AT HOW ...

An Ohio father wants one of his child's math teachers to be punished for using what he calls "inappropriate language" in word problems. The father says one of the problems read, "Tony can send 5 texts ...

West Virginia University’s tagline is “Mountaineers go first.” In 2016, it became the state’s only "R-I" university—a prestigious label reserved for those with “very high research activity” in the ...