“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

It is widely accepted that learning English is essential for many adult migrants who move to the UK. Yet in the last census, over 1 million residents in England and Wales reported not speaking English ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Walk into almost any school in California, and you’ll notice conversations happening in several languages. This is one of the state’s ...

Stacks of worksheets sit atop desks and tables in Chanea Bond's Fort Worth classroom. Her students all have their own school-issued laptops, but Bond has swapped computers for paper — lots of paper.

In Christina Gomez’s kindergarten classroom at Mt. View Elementary, in a neighborhood of Nashville, Tenn., students took turns summarizing what they’d just read about the four seasons and farm animals ...

Despite a national trend toward teaching shorter texts, Green Bay area schools still require students to read full novels. State standardized tests, like Wisconsin's Forward exam often focus on ...