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 ...

Young children have a surprising capacity to learn math from their surroundings. It doesn’t take much, and they hear and use math language all the time without realizing it. When they ask for snacks, ...

This week’s question is: What are the best strategies for teaching Common Core math to English language learners? I can speak from experience in saying that Common Core has not made it any easier to ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if ...

For young English-language learners, language skills can be a barrier not just to reading but math as well. Educators and researchers working in two school districts here hope that helping students ...