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Fort Bend ISD is launching two new language-learning programs, a Two-Way Dual Language Spanish-English Program and a Mandarin ...

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, ...

A new approach to English immersion that is expected to increase the numbers of international students travelling for their English education has been launched in London. Humphreys explained that ...

December 11, 2025 - A tiny school district in rural Merced County has invested heavily in school counseling. And UCLA researchers have recognized the results. When 6-year-old Mia Truong started ...

November 26, 2025 - Come prepare a meal with the fifth and sixth graders of Pacific Elementary, in Davenport, California, where the district attracts students just for the lunch. This story has been ...

Evanston/Skokie School District 65’s Two-Way Immersion program has enriched the bilingual education of native Spanish and English speakers. The program places English as a second language students in ...

In Maritza Bermudez’s home, the goal has been to speak Spanish as much as possible. But starting next school year, Korean will be thrown into the mix. Bermudez, who lives in Anaheim, is enrolling one ...

Creekside Elementary School parents spoke, and their school district listened: more bilingual programs have been added to the curriculum. Creekside Elementary is the second elementary school in the ...

The number of Gwinnett County elementary schools with language immersion classes is expanding to 9. Level Creek, Meadowcreek and Parsons elementary schools will add the programs in 2018 and 2019, ...

If you find yourself in Jenny Yang’s third-grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary in southeast Fresno, you’ll hear students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the mornings in the Hmong language. When ...

When 6-year-old Mia Truong started reading and writing in Vietnamese in addition to English, her parents knew they had made the right decision for kindergarten. Mia’s family lives in San Jose, within ...