Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

EdSource · A mentorship program fights for survival under the Trump administration Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged ...

A new study co-authored by the University of Delaware’s Steven Amendum has found that children who had strong early reading skills in their native Spanish language when they entered kindergarten ...

Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

Immigrant parents worry their children will struggle with reading and fret that as non-English speakers, they can't help. A new study shows that's simply not true. Reading to a young child in any ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Low statewide reading scores have sparked many advocates to call for California to adopt a so-called structured literacy curriculum that ...

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GEOFFREY sits in the first-grade classroom, looking helplessly at his reading workbook. The words “Color six hens red” are merely clusters of meaningless shapes; he looks across at his neighbor’s work ...

When Ahmed arrived in the United States from Somalia seven years ago, he’d never been to school. He could read the Quran in Somali, but he didn’t know a word of English or even how to read the ...