Education Week

The ‘Science of Reading’ and English-Language Learners: What the Research Says

As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

English is the common language of science. That comes at a cost for scientists and the planet

Tatsuya Amano knows how daunting it is to be surrounded by people speaking a foreign language in your workplace. The conservation scientist left his native Japan in 2011 to work in the UK and then ...
New York Post

Why English makes the US stronger

“Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” and now — thanks to a new Trump executive order — describes the status of the English ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach English-language learners? This series is part of a longer series of questions and ...
The Conversation

When English becomes the global language of education we risk losing other – often better – ways of learning

The English language in education today is all-pervasive. “Hear more English, speak more English and become more successful” has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Some say it’s already a universal ...