2003-03-26 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco-- Five years after voters approved English-only classrooms across California, the popular ballot measure seems to be working. The number of students who speak ...

International applicants whose first language is not English should meet one or more of the following English proficiency requirements for regular admission to Calvin University. SAT, ACT, TOEFL, ...

As school districts forge ahead in putting the common academic standards into practice, many states are still revising or creating new English-language-proficiency standards to spell out for teachers ...

About 47 percent of Orange County’s public school students still learning English tested proficient on a state test measuring fluency, according to figures released Wednesday. More than 119,000 local ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

Although the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides an official definition of a limited English proficiency (LEP) student, or English language learner (ELL) student, the act leaves it ...

Vietnam has advanced to the “moderate proficiency” group in the English Proficiency Index (EPI) released by Education First (EF) on Wednesday, a notable improvement over its placement in the “low ...

One way that Southeast Asian (SEA) employers can boost their global competitiveness is by enhancing their workers’ English language skills, according to an expert. “For enhancing productivity and all, ...