Nov. 12—Making changes in the way bilingual education is taught in Ector County ISD and providing quality professional development for teachers have helped make big improvements in Ector County ISD's ...

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 ...

This post was updated Oct. 11 at 12:42 a.m. For years, Laura Chávez-Moreno has explored how bilingual education programs shape students’ identities. Chávez-Moreno, an assistant professor of education ...

When educating bilingual students, the largest school district in the Coastal Bend, Corpus Christi ISD, currently relies on a transitional model that aims to move students into mainstream English ...

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 ...

Christine Leider M.A. ‘09, Ph.D. ‘15 is driven by a personal mission to address the absence of bilingual education in her own childhood. From her academic journey at the Lynch School of Education and ...

For some elementary students at Jackson Avenue School in Mineola, math lessons are taught early in the day, in English. Later that same day, a switch occurs: Those students learn about Machu Picchu ...

California has banned bilingual education on and off since the 1800s. The state is now 8 years into allowing it again but still hasn’t managed to get all that many kids into good programs. Stay ...

Looking back at her youth growing up in Douglas, Arizona — nestled up snugly against its Mexican sister city of Agua Prieta, Sonora — Laura C. Chávez-Moreno wishes she’d had the chance to partake in ...

California first demanded public education be conducted exclusively in English in 1872, a policy that stayed on the books until Ronald Reagan, as governor, signed a law to get rid of it in 1967. About ...