LOWELL — Three city teachers fired in 2003 for failing to pass an English fluency exam must be given their jobs back and paid back wages after a Superior Court judge agreed they were wrongly ...

CAINTA, Philippines — You’ve been planning to work abroad as a medical professional for some time now, and you have more or less put together all your documents already. There is just one more ...

Teachers in Massachusetts who have failed fluency tests in English are fighting to keep their jobs, even though a new anti-bilingual-education law in the state says they must give them up. The law, ...

BOSTON — Should a teacher who can’t speak fluent English to her students be allowed to stay in the classroom? The outcome of Phanna Rem Robishaw’s case against the Lowell School Department and Lowell ...

When two dozen teachers here failed a required English fluency examination, the superintendent of this state’s most troubled school system placed them on unpaid administrative leave. Now it turns out ...

LOS ANGELES – Criticism is mounting among school officials over a new test designed to track students who are not fluent in English – one-fifth of the state’s public school population. Officials say ...

EdSource · California high schoolers get a crash course in finance Researchers and language experts have long criticized the subjectivity and variations in criteria that California districts have used ...

Skilled workers looking to emigrate to Australia have to prove their English proficiency Matthew Kelly An Irish engineer who found himself being judged as not able to speak English fluently by an ...