If you are raising your child in a dual-language household, you are giving them a gift. Not only are you connecting them to multiple rich traditions, you are giving their brain a healthy workout. But ...

Many children enter school in California speaking languages other than English, and they learn to read at the same time that they are learning English. As California aims to improve literacy ...

Young English-language learners still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most from early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages. That’s the ...

There is a large and growing population of children in the United States who are younger than 5 years old who have a first language other than English and will be forced to learn two languages ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First 5 California released Quick Facts: Professional Development to Support Teachers of Young Dual Language Learners in California, a new brief by the American ...

EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength One critical component of the governor’s strategies should be to lay a strong foundation for our state’s youngest ...

The committee examined how evidence based on research relevant to the development of dual language learners/English learners from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related ...

A newly issued policy statement from the U.S. Departments of Education and Health urges coordinated support from parents, early educators, state governments, and private organizations to address the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First 5 California released a new brief by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) as part of the $20 million initiative to promote high‑quality early learning ...

I’m not what people expect when they hear the last name “Vazquez.” I’m the butt of jokes about 1,000 spf sunscreen in the summer, which I like to use as timely reminders to reapply. My husband and I ...

Nearly 10 years after a decades-long ban on bilingual education was repealed, California is still lagging on providing enough dual language education to its large population of English learners ...