A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English-language learners in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure ...

For years I’ve thought that the federal government requires school districts to administer a home-language survey to parents when they enroll a child in school to determine whether a language other ...

To speak or not to speak? How important is one’s home language or mother tongue? These are questions that immigrant families ponder. While there is no clear answer to the questions, here are four ...

It is common for Australian children to grow up with languages other than English in their family lives. More than one-fifth of Australians report speaking a language other than English at home. But ...

THEmajority of South African children do not know how to read or write in theirmother tongue because of the influence of English and the choice to makeEnglish their first language. It doesn't help ...

Literacy changes lives: in Unesco’s words, it “empowers and liberates people, … reduces poverty, increases participation in the labour market and has positive effects on health and sustainable ...