Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. High school senior Martha Hernandez was born in Baja California, Mexico, and came to the U.S. when she was 10 years old, in fifth grade. She ...

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 ...

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Amazon's 750,000 hourly employees now have access to a fully-funded college education. On March 3, the e-commerce giant announced its partnership with more than 140 national and local academic ...

Chet Jordan stood in front of his class at Guttman Community College dressed in black skinny jeans and a bowler hat, sipping coffee. He took a straw poll of his students: How many of you know that ...

Until recently, most students at Cuyamaca College near San Diego had to take multiple English remedial classes before they could enter the English course that mattered most to many — the one they ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – Amarillo College, for several years, has been offering English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for its students, especially students who are part of the Amarillo ...

When a friend asked Andrea White Rubio if she was interested in caring for an 84-year-old man with early dementia and diabetes during the pandemic, she considered her job options. She had scrambled ...

In a minorly famous letter to the duchess of Sutherland, Henry James advises that The Ambassadors should be read “very easily and gently,” specifying that his correspondent should ideally “read five ...

For some refugees and immigrants who now call the Quad Cities home, it isn't always easy to learn a new language, while also working a job. Black Hawk College offers free, adult English as a Second ...

MIDLAND, Texas — Learning a new language can be hard and even costly for some. The Midland College Cogdell Learning Center offers English classes all free of charge. That's thanks to funding from the ...

Maxine Alper understands the powerlessness a person can feel in a foreign country. During the first few years of the eight she spent teaching English in Guatemala, Alper was acutely aware of how the ...