Odessa American

Bilingual education program coming into its own

Making changes in the way bilingual education is taught in Ector County ISD and providing quality professional development for teachers have helped make big improvements in Ector County ISD’s ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Bilingual education pays off in many different ways. Parents, here’s how it works.

Wong is an impact teacher who supports combo classrooms teaching literacy and math for the Poway Unified School District. She lives in Talmadge. Bilingual education is an educational approach that ...
Times Union

Commentary: Quality bilingual education programs are essential for teachers, students

Algebra is hard enough to learn in English. But when a ninth-grade teacher in the Hudson Valley recently tried to explain X’s and Y’s to newly arrived students from Latin America, he had to use a ...
Daily Bruin

Laura Chávez-Moreno explores race, identity in bilingual education programs

This post was updated Oct. 11 at 12:42 a.m. For years, Laura Chávez-Moreno has explored how bilingual education programs shape students’ identities. Chávez-Moreno, an assistant professor of education ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Years after Corpus Christi ISD ends dual language program, other districts take it on

When educating bilingual students, the largest school district in the Coastal Bend, Corpus Christi ISD, currently relies on a transitional model that aims to move students into mainstream English ...
Governing

Tarrant County Struggles to Find Teachers for Bilingual Education

Four years ago, Texas lawmakers began offering schools extra money to support programs for non-native English speakers. Districts across the state immediately took them up on their offer, creating new ...
Newsday

More bilingual-certified teachers are needed, advocates say, as number of English-learning students rises

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 ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

California brought back bilingual education. 3 reasons why so few schools offer it

California has banned bilingual education on and off since the 1800s. The state is now 8 years into allowing it again but still hasn’t managed to get all that many kids into good programs. Stay ...
EdSurge

What Bilingual Education Reveals About Race in the U.S.

Looking back at her youth growing up in Douglas, Arizona — nestled up snugly against its Mexican sister city of Agua Prieta, Sonora — Laura C. Chávez-Moreno wishes she’d had the chance to partake in ...
Yahoo

Framingham will add dual language education to two middle schools. How it works

FRAMINGHAM — Framingham Public Schools said it will expand its Dual Language Bilingual Education Program to two middle schools. In an announcement, the school district said the state Department of ...
KPBS

California brought back bilingual education. 3 reasons why so few schools offer it

California first demanded public education be conducted exclusively in English in 1872, a policy that stayed on the books until Ronald Reagan, as governor, signed a law to get rid of it in 1967. About ...