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At Pueblo Elementary, a dual-language school in Scottsdale, Ariz., students, including English learners, learn core subjects in both English and Spanish. The schedule looks like this: Students in ...

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 ...

I met a man in the sauna at the downtown Duluth YMCA whose daughter is enrolled in the Misaabekong Ojibwe immersion program at Lowell Elementary School. She wants to connect more deeply with her ...

Only about 7 percent of English language learners in the Boston Public Schools are enrolled in dual-language programs, a proven approach that provides some lessons in the student’s native language.

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 ...

Over the years, much research has been done on the cognitive benefits of second language learning. There are no secrets about the multitude of advantages of exposure to additional languages, cultures, ...

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 ...

With just two remaining blanks separating them from winning a game of hangman against their classmate Blake Tomco, a dozen fifth-grade French immersion students leaped out of their seats. The word, at ...

The Education Department plans to dissolve the office that supports the country’s 5 million English learners. The move comes ...

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank (Diné, Acoma Pueblo) worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of colonialism, boarding schools and broken treaty ...

EA Ecoversity was awarded a three-year grant from the Administration for Native Americans to create the Hawaiian language project, LEO, which means “voice,” “advice,” or “verbal expression” in ʻōlelo ...