Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

While most Southeast Texas students were diving into the freedom of summer, leaving their books and backpacks behind, dozens of middle and high schoolers in Port Arthur were heading back to class.

As the nation’s English-learner population grows each year, more researchers and policymakers are discussing how to best support these students linguistically and academically. Much of that discussion ...