JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s youth. “If we don’t do anything, we’re going to lose our traditions ...

Fort Bend ISD is launching two new language-learning programs, a Two-Way Dual Language Spanish-English Program and a Mandarin ...

Promising results from research on two-way language-immersion programs have pumped up the popularity of such programs in recent years. But some experts say that the three large-scale studies that ...

The number of English learners is shrinking at many dual-language immersion schools while the number of English-dominant and white students is increasing, according to a new analysis released by The ...

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, ...

Jenn Wilson was born in the U.S., but she grew up with bilingual parents. She talked in Spanish with her mom and in English with her dad. She attended a dual-language immersion program in New York ...

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PHOENIX — There's a battle in the courtroom over how second languages are being taught in schools, specifically for those students whose first language is not English and are still learning it. State ...

When Glendale Unified established its first dual-language immersion program in 2003, the school district became a trailblazer for offering students a Spanish class where they would spend at least 50% ...

DUSON — When students walk into Charles M. Burke Elementary, they are welcomed in Spanish by a colorful sign that reads "Bienvenidos." Water fountains, classrooms and more are marked by signs in both ...

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