Preschoolers learn a new language quickly in a bilingual immersion classroom. Learn how German International School Chicago makes this happen and why it matters. We’ve all witnessed — or even ...

A former teacher-turned-principal-turned-researcher, José Medina calls on his own childhood trauma in school to spread his message about validating and acknowledging students' languages and identities ...

The California Department of Education will soon announce the winners of a set of grants to local education agencies including schools, school districts, county offices of education and charter ...

Evadelia Aldape teaches in a first grade bilingual classroom at H.W. Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow is one of 16 MPS schools with developmental bilingual programs, which are aimed at ...

On a recent Monday morning in Wendell Norris Marquez’s classroom in Austin, Texas, students were getting ready to read a story in Spanish by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But first, they discussed the ...

Christine Leider M.A. ‘09, Ph.D. ‘15 is driven by a personal mission to address the absence of bilingual education in her own childhood. From her academic journey at the Lynch School of Education and ...

In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Her mother and grandmother had talked ...

Bilingual education is a basic necessity in today’s global society. It’s a form of education in which students need to learn two or more languages. It’s designed to provide dual language programs, in ...

Four years ago, Texas lawmakers began offering schools extra money to support programs for non-native English speakers. Districts across the state immediately took them up on their offer, creating new ...

Looking back at her youth growing up in Douglas, Arizona — nestled up snugly against its Mexican sister city of Agua Prieta, Sonora — Laura C. Chávez-Moreno wishes she’d had the chance to partake in ...

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