In the first randomized-assignment study in which English-language learners were followed for as long as five years, researchers have found that Spanish-speaking children learn to read English equally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than 50 years, Milwaukee Public Schools' bilingual education program has been providing native Spanish speakers with the ...

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 ...

Eliminating the ban on bilingual education in most Massachusetts public schools in 2017 gave school systems and parents greater flexibility to choose programs that best suited their students. But the ...

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 ...

A bill that would have helped school districts open more dual-language immersion programs fizzled in the California State Assembly this month, crushing the hopes of many advocates of bilingual ...