Making changes in the way bilingual education is taught in Ector County ISD and providing quality professional development for teachers have helped make big improvements in Ector County ISD’s ...

Algebra is hard enough to learn in English. But when a ninth-grade teacher in the Hudson Valley recently tried to explain X’s and Y’s to newly arrived students from Latin America, he had to use a ...

For some elementary students at Jackson Avenue School in Mineola, math lessons are taught early in the day, in English. Later that same day, a switch occurs: Those students learn about Machu Picchu ...

This post was updated Oct. 11 at 12:42 a.m. For years, Laura Chávez-Moreno has explored how bilingual education programs shape students’ identities. Chávez-Moreno, an assistant professor of education ...

California needs to mandate bilingual education in districts with significant numbers of English learners and invest much more to support districts to offer it, according to a new report released ...

Education Assistant Professor Christine Montecillo Leider has been awarded a five-year, $3.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of certified bilingual teachers in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California is, by almost every measure, one of the United States’ most diverse and vibrant states. The country’s most populous ...

California has banned bilingual education on and off since the 1800s. The state is now 8 years into allowing it again but still hasn’t managed to get all that many kids into good programs. Stay ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal Lau vs. Nichols Supreme Court case. The Court found that San Francisco Unified School District’s Chinese students were not getting the English ...

California enrolls a far lower percentage of English learners in bilingual education programs than other states, according to a report released in October from The Century Foundation. The authors also ...

Seven BPS schools will launch new multilingual education programs in the 2025-2026 school year, the district announced Monday, marking the largest single-year surge in BPS’s language offerings.