Faced with an influx of students whose first language isn't English and a lack of teachers equipped to teach them, Alachua County Public Schools created a rule in 2010 that new teachers must complete ...

It's estimated that more than 1.5 billion people speak English. Of those, only 360 million claim English as their mother tongue. Though English is the most studied language globally, it can be ...

A number of states are looking at how to ensure that mainstream teachers who work with English-language learners receive training in how to teach them. Florida requires some of the most extensive ...

In response to the state's rating of its bilingual and English as Second Language programs as deficient, Beaumont ISD has scheduled training sessions this Friday and Saturday for teachers, who are ...