Four years ago, Texas lawmakers began offering schools extra money to support programs for non-native English speakers. Districts across the state immediately took them up on their offer, creating new ...

Karla Medina-Gomez was worried as she prepared to enroll her two oldest children in a state-funded pre-K program around eight years ago. “One of my first questions when I went to register them was: ...

The California Department of Education will soon announce the winners of a set of grants to local education agencies including schools, school districts, county offices of education and charter ...

Teaching via combined languages is important as multiple races and immigrants from different countries live in the United States. Equality among students with diverse upbringings is key. Bilingual ...

Particularly, there has been a noticeable increase in the amount of English language learners. While Cy-Fair and Klein ISDs have increased between 8 and 13 percent through the last few years, Spring ...

Many presume bilingual education can level the academic playing field for English learners, but one UC Davis professor calls foul on current practices. In a new paper presented at the annual meeting ...

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 ...

A recent Learning the Language blog post on California bilingual education is right: Things have changed dramatically since the dismantling of bilingual education in California caused by the passage ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Simón López, the ...

In response to Linda Chavez’s July 30 Op-Ed column regarding “the failure of bilingual education”: It’s very frustrating when people who are bystanders of the educational process wipe their opinions ...

According to recent census data, about 7 percent of the United States population does not speak English. Effectively communicating with non-English speaking patients who need medical attention is a ...

The pandemic slowed down many California school districts’ expansion of bilingual education programs, putting some new bilingual programs on hold. But now, several school districts are resuming their ...