As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Megan Sommers projects her computer screen for her class of English language learners on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, at Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill. (Photo by Anastasia ...

I read about rising student math scores and lagging reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Nov. 9, 2011). I find it true that English isn’t getting the focus that it needs.

Cindy Garcia has been a bilingual educator for 17 years and is currently a districtwide specialist for bilingual/ESL mathematics. She is active on Twitter @CindyGarciaTX and on her blog: One of the ...

For too long, California’s English learners — and the teachers guiding their education — have had to adapt to math curricula and textbooks that were not created with them in mind. Here in Fresno, we ...

A tentative new elementary school schedule would increase English instruction by roughly 15 minutes a day, and math by 20 ...

For some third-graders, 100 minutes of math instruction might get tiring — but not in teacher Sahar Shehaiber’s classroom at Hometown Elementary School in the south suburbs. On a recent afternoon, a ...

At City College of San Francisco, one of the country’s largest public universities, thousands of struggling students pour into remedial English and math classes and then the vast majority disappear, ...