A new book by veteran public school teacher Johanna J. Haver, Structured English Immersion: A Step-by-Step Guide for K-6 Teachers and Administrators (Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2003), offers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne tried to bar students classified as English learners from enrolling in ...

One year after the implementation of the Structured English Immersion Program (SEIP), many believe the program has not been any more successful than the program it replaced SEIP separates students by ...

Arizona’s Department of Education has released data showing that children in Structured English Immersion classes learn at a swifter pace than children assigned to bilingual education programs in ...

Educators say Arizona’s new plan to train all teachers and administrators in how to teach English-language learners is a good idea, but they say its success will depend on how the initiative is ...

In the first randomized-assignment study in which English-language learners were followed for as long as five years, researchers have found that Spanish-speaking children learn to read English equally ...

WASHINGTON — Vince Yanez understands what the Arizona Board of Education could be getting in to this year when it begins a “systematic review” of the state’s English Language Learner program. “Since ...

PHOENIX — State schools chief Tom Horne filed suit late Wednesday, trying to get a court to rule any school that doesn’t use “structured English immersion’’ to teach students who aren’t proficient in ...

PHOENIX — State schools chief Tom Horne is making a last-ditch effort to force schools to use only “structured English immersion’’ to teach students who are not proficient. In a new filing, Horne asks ...

TUCSON – At a time when one-in-eight students in Arizona qualify for English language services, the state has made controversial and — according to the federal government – possibly unlawful changes ...