All week we've been looking into bilingual immersion programs. In her final report, KPCC's Deepa Fernandes profiles two Latino families who tried bilingual education with vastly different results. All ...

LEARN ABOUT ALL LANGUAGES. AND TO LONDON IN A FEW CLICKS. IN CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MULTILINGUALISM, STUDENTS AT THE GEORGE JUNIOR GLOBAL STUDIES SCHOOL ZOOMED THIS MORNING WITH STUDENTS ...

I’m returning to an issue I mentioned in an earlier post, about whether providing the option for students to take tests for many years in their native languages—and by extension, whether offering ...

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 ...

The California Department of Education will soon announce the winners of a set of grants to local education agencies including schools, school districts, county offices of education and charter ...

Bilingual parents and the experience of hearing two languages may give babies an early learning advantage — and all before they know how to speak. A new study shows that bilingual babies quickly adapt ...

As we wrap up this year’s ‘’If You Give a Child a Book’ campaign, we want to draw attention to the increased demand for Central Coast dual immersion programs in local schools, from both native English ...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) defines dyslexia as a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read (see here). The ...

One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...