LOWELL — An arbitrator has ruled that Lowell school officials wrongfully terminated teachers in 2003 for being unable to speak English fluently and has ordered their reinstatement and payment of back ...

LOS ANGELES – Criticism is mounting among school officials over a new test designed to track students who are not fluent in English – one-fifth of the state’s public school population. Officials say ...

Non-profit NWEA is launching a new oral reading fluency assessment for K-3 that uses speech recognition, automatic scoring and computer adaptive technology rather than human judgment and individual ...

Psycholinguists from the Center for Language and Brain found that phonological processing skills continue to influence text ...

Leader in math-focused education introduces courses to build foundational skills for young learners and prepare high schoolers for college exams Mathnasium Learning Centers specializes in math-only ...

Just a few years ago, a set of tests known as “dibbles” would have elicited little more than a chuckle from educators or anyone else. Today, they’re taking it seriously, because the acronym DIBELS has ...

Intranasal insulin treatment may have the potential to improve motor functions and verbal fluency in patients with Parkinson disease. Intranasal insulin (INI) treatment may improve motor skills and ...

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more ...