In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...

Learning another language can improve critical thinking, brain development, cultural sensitivity, and career development.

Jenni Torres is the new executive director of WIDA, the organization that oversees English learner assessments in most states ...

Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning drama, which ...

Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its ...

For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly ...