“ROLY POLY right, right, right. Roly poly left, left, left,” sings a class of five-year-olds at a government primary school on the outskirts of Lucknow, a city in India’s Hindi-speaking heartland.

Educators who specialize in teaching English-language learners are of mixed minds about the federal No Child Left Behind Act. They agree that the 4-year-old law has brought unprecedented attention to ...

First graders (from left) Mu July Htoo, Mya Paw, Say Ku Paw and Soe Paw participated in an English as a Second Language class at Wallace Elementary in Dallas. The majority of the students in this ...

California’s State Board of Education has an opportunity at its meeting this week in Sacramento to leave behind one of the most unfair and problematic features of No Child Left Behind (NCLB): the way ...