In the safety-critical field of aviation, miscommunication and/or misunderstanding can lead to a runway incident or accident, or worse, a midair collision. [Credit: Shutterstock] Language and ...

WestEd researchers today released a guide they’d been working on for 18 months, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, to help states create standards and tests for English-language ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In a high-profile announcement, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signed an order Tuesday to reintroduce strict enforcement of English language proficiency standards for ...

If your office phone rings, and you are not there to answer it, does it make a noise? While you might wonder if a tree makes a sound when it falls in the woods with no one to hear it, you can be ...

Putting the common-core standards into practice in classrooms is a monumental change for teachers in the nation’s public schools, but for educators who work with English-language learners, the shifts ...

A new executive order from President Donald Trump to enforce the "commonsense" English-language requirement for commercial motor vehicle drivers was signed on Monday. The order aims to ensure ...

Lawmakers in Senate have taken up a House bill on truck driver English proficiency. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are pushing companion legislation to a House bill ...

US-based students learning English in tandem with other coursework subjects such as STEM are being ‘let down’ by language proficiency standards according to an NYU professor. According to Okhee Lee ...

The Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that it will withhold more than $40 million in funding from California after it found that the state did not comply with language proficiency ...