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 ...

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher ...

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’s a strong and growing demand for schools to provide instruction across grade levels and subjects that leads to students who are bilingual and biliterate. In this sixth installment on the growth ...

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Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. As California expands transitional kindergarten, English learner advocates are urging school districts to prioritize children learning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archbishop Borders School is a dual language immersion school for students in Pre-K 3 to Grade 8 in Southeast Baltimore.

EdSource · California high schoolers get a crash course in finance One critical component of the governor’s strategies should be to lay a strong foundation for our state’s youngest ...

Although it is considered a landmark piece of legislation that would make several necessary updates to the state’s school finance system, House Bill 3 would not change the funding weight for hundreds ...