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, ...

Language immersion education is a relatively new field, so how can educators know if a program is effective? Shuhan Wang and Joy Kreeft Peyton, of Asia Society’s Chinese Early Language and Immersion ...

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

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 ...

Language immersion programs are on the rise and are proving to be impactful—especially as a strategy for addressing issues of equity. Considered to be the most innovative way to teach students a ...

The number of English learners is shrinking at many dual-language immersion schools while the number of English-dominant and white students is increasing, according to a new analysis released by The ...

Proposition 227 all but eliminated bilingual education in California schools in 1998. The law mandated that English be used as the primary language to teach non-English-speaking kids in schools. In ...

Learning a second language can be a challenge, but it's a little easier when you learn that new language while you are young. That's why language immersion programs are becoming more popular in North ...

Nearly every word Maria Villalobos says to her kindergarten class at Dolores Huerta International Academy in Fontana is in Spanish. But only about half of her students speak it at home. 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 ...