WILLIMANTIC — The English for Speakers of Other Languages Summer Bridge Program kicked off its third year at CT State Community College Quinebaug Valley in Willimantic. The Scripps Family Fund for ...

Shakiba Zare, 16, moved to Arbutus with her family three years ago when they fled religious persecution in their home country of Iran. “We are not free because we are not Muslim. So that is why we ...

Some students already have advanced degrees and professions from their native countries and want to pursue their careers in the United States. Others just want to talk to their neighbors in English, ...

“What have we been working on over the past few days?” teacher John Arnold asked the students in his Centennial High School ESOL class. “What kinds of words have we been learning?” There was a long ...

As Rochester school system's ESOL coordinator, Sambath Ouk supervises a program that teaches English to 2,000 immigrant students from 79 nations. More than two decades ago, Ouk was once one of the ...