MONROE — The children sat in a circle during their kindergarten class at Frank Wagner Elementary School, explaining what they did over the weekend. They were speaking Spanish, a native language for ...

I was dismayed at what our newly adopted daughter from China encountered during her first days of school in the U.S. When she followed the other 25 children in her first-grade class through the lunch ...

There is an energy across the country for dual-language programs and schools providing instruction in both English and a second language -- that language is typically Spanish, the second-most spoken ...

School districts across Texas are scrambling still to fill teaching positions. Teachers certified in bilingual education or English as a second language are particularly hard to find. Too many ...

Family members, teachers and peers can play different roles in shaping Spanish-speaking children's school readiness and English skills that are vital to children's academic success, research confirms.

Learning a language might bring to mind images of sitting in a classroom, conjugating verbs: I love, you love, he loves, we love, they love. That’s not the way Karen Birach wanted to learn Spanish.

Geri Chaffee’s first live radio appearance came as a surprise. As schools shut down to slow the spread of coronavirus, the sudden shift to distance learning left parents frazzled and frustrated. It ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

The USA TODAY Network is launching a series on the Latino community in the USA called Hecho en USA, or made in America. Roughly 80% of all Latinos living in the USA are American citizens, but media ...

WASHINGTON — Azteca America, a Spanish-language network with 61 affiliate stations in the United States, is embarking on a nationwide quest: to teach English. The network plans to launch a television ...