Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

The issue about the Native American English classes that are offered seems a bit trivial. Why are they needed? Here is what one of the staff writers wrote in the latest article ["Inclusion defeats ...

For most kids, English class is, at its best, a place where you learn how to communicate and in the process hopefully encounter a few stimulating ideas. Many English teaching higher-ups disagree.

“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...

On Sept. 13 faculty and staff at the University of Oregon’s American English Institute received notice that the department would be discontinued at the end of the academic year. A termination letter ...

Being middle class in America used to mean something—something socially transformative, something even revolutionary. The American middle class represented a form of national social order never before ...

In many U.S. history classes, the poems carved into the wooden barrack walls of Angel Island Immigration Station—the San Francisco Bay facility where hundreds of thousands of newcomers from Asia were ...