Dual-Language Immersion (DLI) programs are helping students unlock these advantages by combining rigorous academic ...

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, ...

Meeker Elementary School’s Noheli Batres came to the United States from Mexico in third grade as a non-English speaker. Reflecting on the difficult time she faced navigating a new language in a new ...

Young English-language learners still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most from early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages. That’s the ...

Students in the Vietnamese dual enrollment classroom at Rose City Park Elementary gather at the annual Run for the Roses fundraiser. (Lindsay Haffner) Lisa Trang wants something for her two children ...

OLYMPIA — Aidé Villalobos starts her mornings by greeting third graders in Spanish as they walk into her classroom. Posters on the walls are in Spanish and English, helping students practice ...

Teacher Gwendolyne Darony asked her third graders to recite four basic language skills. But instead of English, Darony asked in Spanish. "Escuchar. Hablar. Leer. Escribir," the students responded in ...

Garcia's classroom was part of a pilot program in dual-language instruction at two Jefferson Parish elementary schools this year. In the fall, the program will expand to 10 more schools as part of a ...

"Welcome!" or "¡Bienvenidos!" No matter which one you say, both words are perfectly fine inside Regina Sanchez's dual-language first-grade classroom at Four Peals Elementary School in Apache Junction.

HOLYOKE — My sons were attending the dual-language program at Joseph Metcalf School until the Holyoke School District broke up our school last year. The Dual Language Program at Metcalf School was a ...

All across Arizona, dozens of schools now offer some form of dual language education. On Monday, ABC15's Nick Ciletti showed you how one school in Apache Junction is integrating Spanish into the ...