Six years ago, Ensemble Learning, an organization dedicated to helping dual-language programs through curriculum building and professional development, received a federal grant to support its efforts ...

Score one for parental choice and for state superintendents staying in their own lane. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed state Superintendent Tom Horne’s lawsuit seeking to shut ...

Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has threatened to take legal action against schools offering dual language instruction in public school districts. Horne is a strong advocate of ...

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 ...

Enrollment at the first dual-language elementary school run by the Catholic Church on Long Island has soared by 30% as it enters its second year, while enrollment in the Catholic system in general is ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Starting Sept. 15 at Carpinteria Children’s Project, the dual language preschool has been immersed in themed lessons for ...

While Houston ISD experiences continuing declines in student enrollment, one group appears to be on the rise: emergent bilingual students. The population, which includes students whose native language ...

Hanging in the balance are more than the practices for teaching English in the 10 districts that Horne sued. Whatever the court decides could determine whether other districts, wanting something ...

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, ...

This article is part of the Education special section. Read more here. Dual language programs, according to Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, are the most effective ...

Arizona’s public schools chief is taking the governor and attorney general to court in an ongoing spat over how English Language Learner students should be taught. On Sept. 6, Superintendent of Public ...