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 ...

Learning a second language can be a challenge, but it's a little easier when you learn that new language while you are young. That's why language immersion programs are becoming more popular in North ...

It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — If going back to school wasn’t hard enough imagine learning everything in Spanish or Mandarin. Good morning, buenos dias and zaoshang hao… 3 different languages in which students ...

JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s youth. “If we don’t do anything, we’re going to lose our traditions ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — One elementary school in Central Virginia is leading the nation in language instruction. Gates Elementary supplements budgeted funds with grants for its dual language ...

The YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga’s Early Learning Language Immersion Center is transitioning its preschool program to a new location. Officials said, "This will ensure continued high-quality ...

The Utah Legislature is considering defunding Utah’s world-renowned Dual Language Immersion, or DLI, program, which is currently training nearly 50,000 K-12 students in bilingual fluency, preparing ...

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 ...

Cobb parents whose children attend dual language immersion programs are hearing from staff that the district plans to phase out the program. In a Facebook Live session with worried parents last week, ...

Harmit Singh Juneja moved to the Frenso-Clovis metro area in 2014. When the opportunity to enroll his youngest two daughters at a dual immersion school came up, he couldn’t let it pass. After all, he ...