This article was written for our sponsor, Participate Learning. The benefits of dual-language programs for native English speakers are often lauded, including enhanced cultural awareness, strengthened ...

Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, profiles Oregon schools that prove that the younger children start learning a language, the ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

Language learning is a fascinating and intricate process that has intrigued scholars and researchers for centuries. It is not only a means of communication but also a window into the complex workings ...

Immersion is based upon the premise that learning content through a new language builds proficiency in both the content and language. Yet, whatever the model (ranging from 80 to 50% of instruction in ...

Starting an immersion program in an Alaska Native language comes with challenges: An educator often needs to create the curriculum and teaching materials themselves, and they sometimes need to work on ...

ROCK HILL — On a typical day, a visitor walking the halls at the Cherry Park Elementary School of Language Immersion in Rock Hill will hear greetings of "hello," "hola" and "bonjour" exchanged between ...

Charlottesville — Brad Handrich’s fifth-grade classroom at Cale Elementary looks — and sounds — like a Spanish class. He speaks to his students in Spanish, and they speak back fluently. Signs adorning ...

As the Calistoga school district explores the possibility of a dual language immersion program, the teachers’ union took an unusual stance on the issue at a board meeting last week. In a statement ...

Clarification: An earlier version of this article referred to Haa Yoo X’atángi Kúdi as the first-ever Tlingit language immersion preschool. It is the first for Juneau, not the whole state. By February ...