Ada Rios Torres grew up speaking Spanish in Puerto Rico. When she was 25, she taught herself English by watching and listening to videos. It took her five years to master the language. She moved to ...

Fort River School in Amherst, home of the Caminantes program. Credit: STAFF FILE PHOTO AMHERST — The leader of a successful dual-language program at Fort River School is calling on the Amherst School ...

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 ...

The United States lost ground over the past decade in the proportion of elementary schools that offer foreign-language lessons, following a decade during which those schools had increasingly launched ...

Creekside Elementary School parents spoke, and their school district listened: more bilingual programs have been added to the curriculum. Creekside Elementary is the second elementary school in the ...

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Two local school districts started new programs this year to combine Spanish- and English-dominant speakers in the same elementary school classrooms. Del Valle ISD and ...

DENVER — Escuela Valdez Elementary School is creating bilingual, globally-minded students through its comprehensive dual language immersion program that teaches children from age 3 through fifth grade ...

It’s hard to tell who is more excited about the foundational literacy program at Regal Elementary School, the students or the teachers. Recently, third-graders in Kristin Lentz’ class were breaking ...

When: School District of Lancaster school board meeting, Sept. 12. What happened: Administrators plan to revamp the district’s recently unveiled Elementary Newcomer Program after only one family ...

An outside review of dual-language programming at two Summit School District elementary schools showcases strengths and areas for growth, according to a recent report presented during an April 25 ...