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 ...

Dual-language programs can create integrated learning environments for both native English speakers and English learners. They also have the potential to decrease school segregation and increase ...

The Delavan-Darien School District is considering cutting its dual language program from 4K-12 to 4K-6. District officials cite a persistent shortage of highly qualified bilingual teachers as the ...

If Ridgetop Elementary School closes at the end of the school year, Andrew Rottas will miss walking his second-grade daughter to class each morning. With Ridgetop listed among the proposed closures in ...

Loreli Medina-Cárdenas spoke only Spanish when she started in the dual-language immersion program at Pioneer Elementary School, while some of her classmates spoke only English. Within a year, she was ...

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As Principal Ninon Ledesma entered her third grade Spanish dual-language classroom at Alice Birney Elementary in Metairie last week, a young boy looked up from the cluster of students gathered around ...

Area parents mobilized quickly in response to a North Thurston proposal to eliminate a dual-language program at an area elementary school, and that effort paid off on Wednesday after the district ...

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 ...