Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law ...

Five years ago, researchers from the University of California, Davis, took a look at reading-exam scores across the K-12 grade span for students growing up in non-English-speaking homes. Predictably, ...

It is easy to be English-centric when we think about learning to read. Most of our knowledge about learning to read has focused on English-speaking children. Most reading researchers speak English.

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

After closing the main building for a month, Peninsula Reads classes resumed Monday. The adult literacy organization in Newport News serves about 350 people ages 18 and older in three programs ...

January 15, 2026 - We visited Heather Povinelli in her Monrovia classroom, where we spoke about how she got back into teaching, how she creates an inclusive classroom, and what she learned conducting ...