January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. But an in-depth look at the science ...

“A lot of Negroes,” says the Ford Foundation’s Edward Meade, “speak with such a thick dialect that they cannot be understood by other Americans.” In the simple interests of comprehensibility, Ford and ...

For people who live in the United States and don't know English well, life can be tough. Even taking a bus or buying a soft drink becomes a challenge — let alone succeeding in school or at work.

In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Siberia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for its smart speaker. A week before the campaign was supposed ...

There are places where the cultural mix of a community makes you expect to hear a chorus of different languages. Along the southern border, Spanish makes sense. So might a smattering of Portuguese or ...

Since arriving in the United States in June, Olha Hubarieva has struggled to feel understood. That is, until she stepped foot in a Spokane Community College classroom to begin English as a second ...

In a world driven by globalization, English remains the dominant language of business, travel and education, creating constant demand for qualified and semi-qualified ESL teachers across multiple ...

Westmoreland County’s ever-­diversifying population is having an impact in public schools, where a growing number of students do not speak English as a native language and educators are facing ...

Michigan K-12 schools are serving more students learning English as a second language than at any point in the last two decades, but recent data tracking their progress showed those educating the ...

For more than 30 years, English learners in New York have taken the paper-and-pencil New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test to measure their English-language proficiency. The ...