A 2020 survey revealed that nearly 60% of Americans support increasing funding for foreign language education, underscoring public concern and the importance of these initiatives. Yet, despite ...

Which students benefit the most from dual-language programs? The answer, one educator says, is nuanced. “It isn’t that some English learners benefit, and native English speakers do not. It also ...

Dual-language programs can create integrated learning environments for both native English speakers and English learners. They also have the potential to decrease school segregation and increase ...

While Houston ISD experiences continuing declines in student enrollment, one group appears to be on the rise: emergent bilingual students. The population, which includes students whose native language ...

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CONROE, Texas – Conroe ISD has decided to keep the district’s dual language program. Conroe ISD Superintendent Dr. Curtis Null announced that the agenda item was being pulled before it went to a vote.

Six elementary schools are getting new Spanish language programs as Chicago Public Schools seeks to broaden access to multilingual programs and graduate more students with bilingual skills. Little ...

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 ...

There were days when Kristina Otto's daughter would come home from school at Lamar Elementary in Conroe ISD exhausted after a day of learning her core curriculum in Spanish—her child's second language ...

Italian Professor Alessandro Carrera was shocked when he counted the number of language graduates on the University of Houston’s commencement program in May. Around 20 undergraduates earned degrees in ...

For 67 years, the Department of Education has administered grants to universities to create centers devoted to foreign languages and area studies, a field focused on the study of the culture of a ...