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 ...

Wong is an impact teacher who supports combo classrooms teaching literacy and math for the Poway Unified School District. She lives in Talmadge. Bilingual education is an educational approach that ...

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 ...

Education Assistant Professor Christine Montecillo Leider has been awarded a five-year, $3.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of certified bilingual teachers in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal Lau vs. Nichols Supreme Court case. The Court found that San Francisco Unified School District’s Chinese students were not getting the English ...

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 ...

For more than 50 years, Milwaukee Public Schools’ bilingual education program has been providing native Spanish speakers with the instruction to become fluent in English while maintaining a strong ...

The state's oversight of specialized programs to help non-native English speakers boost their academic performance may be lacking, the state comptroller said. The State Education Department has not ...

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 ...