This First Person article is the experience of Alvin Ma, a second-generation Chinese Canadian. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. I tried to avoid eye contact ...

The lowest level of for-credit community college classes are meaningful for the students enrolled in them. They’re also in decline, as transfer reforms and other factors shape community college course ...

The pandemic disrupted English lessons for these Latinx residents of Sussex County. Then, the programs serving them pivoted to virtual — which brought its own challenges. When COVID-19 took hold and ...

If one looks at the data on federal funding for English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, one realizes the situation is far worse than imagined. As of 2020, federal funding for English-learning ...

I tried to avoid eye contact and slump in my chair, but it didn't work. It was the start of my Grade 4 school year and for the fourth consecutive year, my name was called to receive additional English ...

When Galina Kerman came to America from Ukraine 16 months ago, she knew barely a word of English – maybe “hello” and “goodbye. That began to change last month, when the 55-year-old grandmother signed ...

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The four women, hailing from Mexico, Russia and Haiti, gathered at Terrytown Library, cutting out magazine pictures of cars, flowers and smiling people to create vision boards. The vision boards, in ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Cy-Fair ISD is offering free English learning courses to the parents of students enrolled in English as a second language, or ESL, classes. Classes will be available for those with ...