The Arizona Supreme Court won’t consider whether public schools need to ask for parental permission before teaching students ...

George Lee, a third grade teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, speaks with the confident enthusiasm of someone who is where he belongs. “I’m teaching in a neighborhood that I grew up in,” said Lee ...

It’s taken me a while to read and digest a critique by Heather Mac Donald of bilingual education in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Meanwhile, Joanne Jacobs posted a short excerpt from the ...

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The national shortage of multilingual educators has caught the eye of Congress and led school districts to travel overseas and off the U.S. mainland to fill vacancies or newly created positions. Now, ...

The state of Texas is currently under fire for not providing a quality education to students learning English, particularly at the middle and high school levels. LULAC is suing the state for failing ...

Eliminating the ban on bilingual education in most Massachusetts public schools in 2017 gave school systems and parents greater flexibility to choose programs that best suited their students. But the ...

Growing up the son of Mexican immigrant parents in Los Angeles, Ricardo Lara took pride in being bilingual. But it was also a means of survival. From a young age, the Bell Gardens Democrat, who ...

EdSource · How one student became a powerful voice for others with disabilities As some districts in California struggle to expand their bilingual programs under a new state law, more than a dozen ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. After years of prioritizing English-only classes for students who spoke other languages at home, California is now pushing to expand ...

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 ...

Given the numbers, even if every teacher who has received a bilingual certification since 1994-95 was leading a bilingual classroom today (many are not), the state would have only one bilingual ...