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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 ...

Depending on what you read, speaking more than one language may or may not make you smarter. These mixed messages are understandably confusing, and they're due to the fact that nothing is quite as ...

Briceño is an associate professor of teacher education at San José State University, where she coordinates the Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy Education master’s program. She lives in San Jose ...

Evadelia Aldape teaches in a first grade bilingual classroom at H.W. Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow is one of 16 MPS schools with developmental bilingual programs, which are aimed at ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. It’s about to get easier to become a bilingual teacher in Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin ...

Post written by François Grosjean. "Antoine, how do you say "download a file" in French? "Hem, I'm not quite sure" "But I thought you were bilingual?" How many bilinguals have found themselves in ...

One section of the April 19, 2006, Chat Wrap-up on foreign-languages education dealt with the “language confusion” myth, which holds that bilingual parents should not teach their children their ...

GOLETA, Calif. – Across the state, Santa Barbara County has one of the highest percentages of students who struggle to speak fluent English, even more than down in Los Angeles County. A new state ...

So this is bilingual education: In theory, it means you can do both [languages]. It sounds beautiful. But in practice, the working language [in schools and offices] even at the township [rural] level ...