The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment consortium—or WIDA—has released its new edition of English-language-development standards that are directly linked to the common-core standards in ...

California education officials are moving ahead to revamp the state’s English-language development standards so that they are aligned with the academic demands of the common-core standards in ...

The complex language skills that are the focus of Common Core’s English language arts standards will be needed to excel in Common Core math and the new science standards. They are stressed, too, in ...

Assembly Bill 714, recently signed into law, requires the California Department of Education to report the number of newcomer students and offer best practices for teaching them. A course on plastic ...

Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language ...

Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language ...

Theory Into Practice, Vol. 49, No. 2, Integrating English Language Learners in Content Classes (Spring 2010), pp. 129-136 (8 pages) The purpose of this article is to describe the process and ...

Since coming to office, the Obama Administration has been intent on standardizing what is taught at each grade level in all of the nation’s schools. It has used its flagship “Race to the Top” ...

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When: Hempfield education and programs, policy, personnel, and legal school board committee meeting, June 15. What happened: District officials proposed updates to the secondary math course and ...