Robust research studies since at least the 1980s have found the most effective programs to be some form of bilingual education, such as dual-language immersion, in which students learn academic ...

In the bilingual program at Longfellow, students start out with 90% of instruction in Spanish. When they get to Aldape's first grade classroom, 80% of instruction is in Spanish.

Last fall, she moved from São Paulo to Framingham, Mass., with her husband and young son to use her Portuguese language skills to teach in a bilingual classroom at Potter Road Elementary School.

Now a college graduate, the 21-year-old is channeling her lived experiences into a career path. This fall, Martinez will become a bilingual teacher for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in ...

Only about 1,000 bilingual teacher authorizations were issued in California during the 2022-2023 school year, the latest year for which state data is available.

He plans to keep teaching as long as possible and perhaps become a bilingual program director someday. Steve Metsch is a freelance reporter. Originally Published: May 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM CDT ...

The Bilingual Education Act of 1968 is the first federal recognition of the needs of students with limited English-speaking ability. The law has undergone four reauthorizations with amendments.

Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S. public school students — more than 5.3 million nationwide — up from 9.4 percent a decade ago.

More than 300 educators gathered on Thursday for an annual Differentiated Instruction Fiesta Conference hosted by the Weslaco ...

WHAT TO KNOW As the number of English-language learning students increases across Long Island, education advocates say teachers certified for bilingual-education classes are becoming harder to find.

Many of the new students have been funneled into international schools, like Pan American International High School in Elmhurst, or schools that already had bilingual classes and teachers in place ...

Emergent bilingual students are demonstrating success through a variety of different measures such as: Bilingual kindergarten readiness at 75 percent compared to the state target of 47 percent.