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 is taking another step forward in enacting the new Common Core for English language arts by gathering public comment on new guidelines and standards, State Superintendent of Public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if California is to narrow the wide and persistent gaps in math test scores between its nearly 1.4 million ...

English language arts (ELA) standards should contain abundant literary history. Students must be exposed in a coordinated, grade-by-grade model to our language’s most creative and influential writers.

The ELI values excellence in all aspects of its programming and operations. This means that we work hard to follow best practices in the courses that we offer, the services that we provide to students ...

This article was originally published in EdSource. Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language and understand the content ...

The melting pot metaphor is stronger than ever in American schools today. With 40 million foreign-born residents currently in the U.S., 17 percent of whom have entered the country between 2005 and ...