Class sizes have increased this year because of an influx of beginner-level students who need to be pulled from general education English classes for language instruction.

Under the Common Core State Standards, math teachers whose students have varying levels of English comprehension are using innovative ways to teach them math, the vocabulary of math and to discuss how ...

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 ...

A technology institute in Kirkland is trying a new method of college placement that allows students to decide what math or English they should be taking. The program is called “guided self ...

Beginning fall 2018, all current and new CR students can enroll in college-level English and math without having to take any placement tests and without having to complete any remedial courses first.

A dispute over the length of remedial classes for English and math has sharply divided City College of San Francisco after a trustee proposed shortening the classes.

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...

Tafona Ervin, executive director of the foundation behind Graduate Tacoma, worries that the lack of emphasis on math and English could become a way to push students to graduation without solid ...

AB 705 says students should begin in classes where they have the best chance of completing transferable math and English requirements. Statewide research shows that all students do worse when they ...

Two California community colleges stand out in efforts to help students take for-credit math courses instead of remedial courses.

A new Texas law calls for every student who performs in the top 40% on a fifth-grade math assessment to be enrolled automatically in advanced math for sixth grade.