Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four years ago, Texas lawmakers began offering schools extra money to support programs for non-native English speakers. Districts ...

Rice University researchers found higher scores in both reading and math for Houston-area students who continued to learn in ...

Karla Medina-Gomez was worried as she prepared to enroll her two oldest children in a state-funded pre-K program around eight years ago. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad ...

Particularly, there has been a noticeable increase in the amount of English language learners. While Cy-Fair and Klein ISDs have increased between 8 and 13 percent through the last few years, Spring ...

When Natalie Griffin was elevated in 2017 to oversee a Texas school district’s bilingual program, she inherited decades-long problems in hiring certified teachers. The state put extra pressure on the ...

Through research-based professional learning opportunities, bilingual teachers can engage in a variety of activities that help them connect their own lived experiences with that of their students and ...

On Wednesday, Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) sent a letter to parents regarding a change to their bilingual program. CCISD studied different bilingual programs in the state to ...

California has more than doubled the number of bilingual authorizations issued to teachers annually, from 617 in 2014-15 to a ...

English-language learners do better academically over the long term if they participate in special programs to learn English at the start of their school careers, rather than attend only mainstream ...

Stephanie Lugardo’s second-grade classroom at Academia Antonia Alonso in Wilmington, Delaware, is bubbling. Students chatter with one another as they work, smiling and joking and wiggling in and out ...