Six years ago, Ensemble Learning, an organization dedicated to helping dual-language programs through curriculum building and professional development, received a federal grant to support its efforts ...

At Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School, students are taught lessons every week in a combination of Spanish, English and Mandarin. The public school, which has more than 400 students on its ...

Which students benefit the most from dual-language programs? The answer, one educator says, is nuanced. “It isn’t that some English learners benefit, and native English speakers do not. It also ...

This article is part of the Education special section. Read more here. Dual language programs, according to Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, are the most effective ...

When educating bilingual students, the largest school district in the Coastal Bend, Corpus Christi ISD, currently relies on a transitional model that aims to move students into mainstream English ...

While Houston ISD experiences continuing declines in student enrollment, one group appears to be on the rise: emergent bilingual students. The population, which includes students whose native language ...

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EVERETT — Last week, Sofia Sierra, a second-grader at Emerson Elementary in south Everett, read a book about volcanoes aloud. “Cenizas y vapores emergen de la montaña. La roca fundida y caliente sube ...

Reality Check is a Fresno Bee series holding those in power to account and shining a light on their decisions. Have a tip? Email [email protected]. Over the past decade, Fresno Unified's ...

Six elementary schools are getting new Spanish language programs as Chicago Public Schools seeks to broaden access to multilingual programs and graduate more students with bilingual skills. Little ...

As the Calistoga school district explores the possibility of a dual language immersion program, the teachers’ union took an unusual stance on the issue at a board meeting last week. In a statement ...