Over at my other blog, Curriculum Matters, I’ve written about Word Generation: Middle School Literacy Development Using Academic English, a new Web tool with resources for teaching “academic language.

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

A significant demand for well-trained English as a second language (ESL) teachers exists throughout the United States. In areas such as education, business, hospitality and many more, the ...

As the country’s increasingly diverse, crowded and underfunded K-8 schools look for ways to help teachers bolster students’ literacy skills, some teachers are taking matters into their own hands.

Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in plain-vanilla, academic language and style. In the ...

Domestic and international students who speak English as an additional language face many linguistic and academic cultural challenges while studying at the university. To better meet their needs, CU ...