Tag: students
Cutting to the Common Core: My Students Can’t Read So How...
Hillary Wolfe recommends building strategic scaffolds to assist adolescent writing
One of the biggest instructional shifts resulting from the Common Core State Standards is the...
UK School to Teach ESL to ALL Students
A high school in Leeds, UK has introduced classes to teach all students English as a second language. More than 75% of students at...
U.S. Students Outperform International Peers
A new Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) report shows that U.S. 15-year-old students scored above average on the 2012 problem solving assessment in...
Biden Pledges to Double Number of US Students in Rest of...
During today’s press conference, launching President Obama’s 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative: Vice President Joe Biden confirmed that the plan was to double...
All Students Benefit from Bilingual Education
Bilingual education programs have a very positive effect on the native English speakers attending schools with such programs even though they do not take...
Study to Examine Achievement of Bilingual Students
The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank, is studying the effects of dual-language immersion on student achievement in Portland Public Schools with a three-year,...
Acclimatizing Saudi Students
Susan Matson offers context and suggestions for helping Saudi Arabian students adjust to the Western educational setting
Although 145,000 Saudi students have enrolled in U.S....
Coaxing Students Down Under
Kristal Bivona admires Australia’s initiatives to attract international students
This year, Australia is rolling out various initiatives intended to increase the number of international students...
International Students Add $23 Billion to U.S. Economy
The 2012 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, released today, finds that the number of international students at colleges and universities in the...
