Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French Ambassador Gérard Araud visits Oak Hollow Elementary, a French-English dual language immersion school, in Draper on Dec. 3, ...

At Pueblo Elementary, a dual-language school in Scottsdale, Ariz., students, including English learners, learn core subjects in both English and Spanish. The schedule looks like this: Students in ...

Over the years, much research has been done on the cognitive benefits of second language learning. There are no secrets about the multitude of advantages of exposure to additional languages, cultures, ...

Which students benefit the most from dual-language programs? The answer, one educator says, is nuanced. “It isn’t that some English learners benefit, and native English speakers do not. It also ...

At a time when local schools are facing shrinking enrollment and talks of closure, Hawaiian immersion programs are bucking ...

With just two remaining blanks separating them from winning a game of hangman against their classmate Blake Tomco, a dozen fifth-grade French immersion students leaped out of their seats. The word, at ...

This article is part of the Education special section. Read more here. Dual language programs, according to Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, are the most effective ...

In June, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne tried to bar students classified as English learners from enrolling in dual language programs. He sent a letter to schools threatening to ...

When Stefania Puxeddu arrived in New York City in 2014, she worried that her four-year-old son would not maintain his native Italian tongue. She struggled to find books in Italian at the public ...

Six elementary schools are getting new Spanish language programs as Chicago Public Schools seeks to broaden access to multilingual programs and graduate more students with bilingual skills. Little ...

ESTIMATED AT 40 BILLION DOLLARS A NEW SCHOOL IS COMGIN TO NATOMAS AND IT ISN’T YOUR TYPICAL CAMPUS. THIS WILL BE A DUAL. LANGUAGE SCHOOL FOR KIDS IN TK THROUGH SIXTH GRADE KCRA 3S I MARICELA DE LA ...