In California, nearly 1 in every 4 children don’t speak English fluently. That’s almost 1.5 million students. How to best teach them is a topic of great concern among educators, because children who are learning…
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6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education
Part of our ongoing series exploring how the U.S. can educate the nearly 5 millionstudents who are learning English. Brains, brains, brains. One thing we’ve learned at NPR Ed is that people are fascinated by brain research. And yet it…
Tonight on PBS NewsHour : California Voters to Decide How Schools Teach English-Learners (An Education Week Report)
In California, nearly 1 in every 4 children don’t speak English fluently. That’s almost 1.5 million students. How to best teach them is a topic of great concern among educators, because children who are learning…
Report: ELL students benefit from more instructional time
Report Recommends Longer School Day for English-Language Learners A report from the National Center on Time and Learning explores how three U.S. schools are using expanded school days to provide extra support for English-language learners. The report profiles two Massachusetts…
Social-emotional learning enhances special ed and beyond
Social-emotional learning programs come in different forms A Chicago Public Schools teacher leads a social emotional learning lesson in an elementary classroom. Social-emotional learning programs improve the grades and behavior of all learners—but special ed students may benefit even…
Parents can help, but children take a DIY approach to learning language
Language learning is not a passive process in which children simply absorb and copy their parents. from www.shutterstock.com Parents can help children develop their language. But when it comes to building the linguistic structure that undergirds the language, new research…
A fast growing market
The enrolment market for International schools is near to attaining 60 billion dollars between now and 2022 With the expansion of the international schools market, ICEF Monitor, in their March 2013 edition, reviewed some revealing statistics as well as the…
US falls behind other nations in the global knowledge economy, says 46-country report
Fewer Americans are going to preschool and college compared to other nations by Jill Barshay, November 24, 2015 The United States continues to fall behind internationally in producing a college-educated workforce as other nations send more of their citizens to…
Bilingual skills enhance stroke recovery
Stroke patients are more likely to regain their cognitive functions if they speak more than one language, new research has found. A study of 600 stroke victims found 40.5% who were multilingual had normal mental functions afterwards, compared…
Many European kids learn two foreign languages by age 9. Most Americans? Zero.
Maybe it is time to put to rest the stereotype of the Frenchman refusing to speak English. In fact, the statistics point in the opposite direction. According to The Pew Research Center, almost every country in Europe requires students as…
Private schools achieve greater A-level success
Pupils from fee-paying schools achieve almost 30 per cent of all A* grades despite forming just 13.6 per cent of all A-level entries raising questions over the education opportunities on offer to the vast majority of children. By Patrick Sawer…
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