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 ...

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 ...

Call it a case of lost in translation if you like, but Australian English has given one Irish vet quite the headache. Louise Kennedy, a vet who has been working in Queensland, Australia, but is ...

Kenyans are the second most fluent English speakers in Africa, according to a ranking by global private language tutor, Education First (EF), a ranking which primes the country to attract foreign ...

The state's English fluency test for educators has stymied Lawrence Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy three times so far, but he is not alone. More than 30 percent of Massachusetts teachers who took the ...

An appeals court ruled earlier this week that three Lowell, Mass., teachers were improperly dismissed from their jobs following a district-administered English fluency test. The three teachers are non ...

I grew up bilingual in a city where as many as 64 languages were spoken by the public schools’ diverse student body. And like everyone else in our nation of immigrants, I’ve navigated language-barrier ...