Districts across the United States are starting dual language immersion programs at a rapid rate, with hopes of providing students with a multilingual education, as well as to close the achievement ...

Language immersion programs are on the rise and are proving to be impactful—especially as a strategy for addressing issues of equity. Considered to be the most innovative way to teach students a ...

Learning a second language can be a challenge, but it's a little easier when you learn that new language while you are young. That's why language immersion programs are becoming more popular in North ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

Rooms 212 and 214 are separated by just a hallway, but walking between them is like switching worlds for sixth-graders at Raymond Cree Middle School in Palm Springs. In Grisele Avila’s classroom, ...

Washington, DC -- Andrew Howells, a restaurant consultant in Washington D.C., wishes he would have grown up fully fluent in another language. "I did not have that opportunity when I was a kid, and I ...

At first glance, this sixth-grade classroom at Newhart Middle School looks normal with its clustered desks, hand-drawn posters and teacher standing at the front of the classroom. A closer look and ...

At Grapevine Elementary in Vista last week, kindergartener Jeremiah Cook sat at a table coloring in a workbook. “I’m writing a number,” he said. “Uno, dos, tres.” Cook is one of about 50 students at ...

In a series of studies, researchers demonstrate that the kind of exposure you have to a foreign language can determine whether you achieve native-language brain processing, and that learning under ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...