In her 11 years as director of Blue Hills Adult Education, Ellen Borgenicht has heard hundreds of student stories - but one recent one sticks out. A math teacher abroad came to America. He couldn't ...

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 ...

The Literacy Project offers free English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for adult students who would like to improve their English language reading and speaking skills. Free English classes are ...

Inside Isabel Senes’ ESL class Tuesday morning: NHPS’s English language learner student enrollment has increased from 4,199 to 4,626 since October. Credit: Maya McFadden Photo Career High School ...

When COVID-19 took hold and society started to shut down in March of 2020, hundreds of Latinos in Sussex County, Delaware, worried it would delay their American dream. Specifically, they worried about ...

Six years ago, Sterling resident Kathy Lague traveled to Paris. "I couldn’t speak French at all," she said. "It was really scary. It made me realize what it must be like for people who cannot speak ...

In the year ending September 2022, more than 70,000 people had claimed asylum in the UK. The vast majority were from countries that do not use English as a first language. Being able to communicate in ...

In the intermediate English as a Second Language class for rising fourth-graders at Cos Cob School this summer, Alvaro Vivas, Kaho Takamura and Emanuel Jaramillo and their classmates showed an ...

Picking up a new language at any stage of life presents challenges, but for older adults learning English after moving to the United States, the endeavor can be especially consuming. Metro area ...