Nov. 12—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 ...

Some parents in the Port Chester School District voiced their concerns on Monday over a draft plan for the future of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 50 years, Milwaukee Public Schools’ bilingual education program has been providing native Spanish speakers with the instruction to become fluent in English while maintaining a strong ...

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 ...

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