As of January last school year, Rutherford County Schools had more than 8,000 ESL students. As those students work to grasp the language, so do their parents.

The lowest level of for-credit community college classes are meaningful for the students enrolled in them. They’re also in decline, as transfer reforms and other factors shape community college course ...

Taking ESL classes has become the latest trend for adults in the Northwest Houston area. English as a second language programs has sprouted in the area with many local businesses, school districts and ...

A change to how a widely used English-proficiency test is scored has led to thousands of students being retained in English-language-learner classes and created budgeting and staffing challenges for ...

Language minority students are often placed in mainstream, English-medium classrooms long before they develop the degree of language proficiency necessary to compete on an equal footing with native ...