Includes updates and/or revisions. New research shows a lack of language skills can hamstring a student’s ability to understand basic concepts in mathematics. A series of studies led by Susan ...

At one preschool, sign language is part of the daily curriculum, helping even the youngest learners communicate and stay ...

For young English-language learners, language skills can be a barrier not just to reading but math as well. Educators and researchers working in two school districts here hope that helping students ...

A study of deaf people in Nicaragua offers fascinating insights into the link between language acquisition and the understanding of numbers. The findings are based on field work conducted by Elizabeth ...

Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if California is to narrow the wide and persistent gaps in math test scores between its nearly 1.4 million ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

If math or linguistics came easily to you, school was probably a far more enjoyable experience for you than others. After all, these two types of intelligence are the primary focus of our educational ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...