Rooms 212 and 214 are separated by just a hallway, but walking between them is like switching worlds for sixth-graders at Raymond Cree Middle School in Palm Springs. In Grisele Avila’s classroom, ...

Language immersion education is a relatively new field, so how can educators know if a program is effective? Shuhan Wang and Joy Kreeft Peyton, of Asia Society’s Chinese Early Language and Immersion ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — One elementary school in Central Virginia is leading the nation in language instruction. Gates Elementary supplements budgeted funds with grants for its dual language ...

Districts throughout the United States are starting dual language immersion programs at rapid rates. When these programs are started quickly, without a solid foundation or in-depth planning, problems ...

Editor's note: This story pairs with 'Dual immersion not the only way to learn languages, experts say' Gov. Jon Huntsman signed Utah’s International Education Initiative into law in 2008, funding dual ...

With just two remaining blanks separating them from winning a game of hangman against their classmate Blake Tomco, a dozen fifth-grade French immersion students leaped out of their seats. The word, at ...

Diana Burchell receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Becky Xi Chen receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ...

Kawehi Housman and her mother embrace after her college graduation ceremony at BYU-Hawaii. Housman's mother was one of the first Hawaiian Language Immersion teachers in the state and played a big part ...