LOWELL — Three city teachers fired in 2003 for failing to pass an English fluency exam must be given their jobs back and paid back wages after a Superior Court judge agreed they were wrongly ...

BOSTON — Should a teacher who can’t speak fluent English to her students be allowed to stay in the classroom? The outcome of Phanna Rem Robishaw’s case against the Lowell School Department and Lowell ...

Call it a case of lost in translation if you like, but Australian English has given one Irish vet quite the headache. Louise Kennedy, a vet who has been working in Queensland, Australia, but is ...

Teachers in Massachusetts who have failed fluency tests in English are fighting to keep their jobs, even though a new anti-bilingual-education law in the state says they must give them up. The law, ...

LAWRENCE, Mass. — When two dozen teachers here failed a required English fluency examination, the superintendent of this state’s most troubled school system placed them on unpaid administrative leave.

The state's English fluency test for educators has stymied Lawrence Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy three times so far, but he is not alone. More than 30 percent of Massachusetts teachers who took the ...

Researchers and language experts have long criticized the subjectivity and variations in criteria that California districts have used to determine when English learners are proficient in English. But ...

I grew up bilingual in a city where as many as 64 languages were spoken by the public schools’ diverse student body. And like everyone else in our nation of immigrants, I’ve navigated language-barrier ...

An appeals court ruled earlier this week that three Lowell, Mass., teachers were improperly dismissed from their jobs following a district-administered English fluency test. The three teachers are non ...