Right now, across the country, parents are in the midst of trying to get their children enrolled in bilingual classrooms for next September. The motivation is usually straightforward. Parents want ...

Accurate communication between patients and medical professionals is a crucial part of proper healthcare. However, millions of people in the United States face barriers to healthcare because of ...

Martha Hernandez, who began her career as a bilingual educator in California in 1976, remembers a time when knowing a language other than English was not considered an asset. It was difficult to ...

Many parents have a desire to raise their children to be bilingual or multilingual (that is, speaking more than one language fluently). It seems that everyone has an opinion on the “right” way to ...

Building off its success at Cedar Ridge Elementary, Unit 5’s Bilingual Parent Advisory Committee (BPAC) is working to bridge communication gaps and expand its support to families of older students.

While federal law requires schools to provide language services for students classified as English learners, states and local districts have broad discretion in the types of education programming to ...

Focusing on the education of English-language learners through a lens of whether bilingual education or English-only instruction is better for such students “sounds like a fairly old way of ...

Are two languages at a time too much for the mind? Caregivers and teachers should know that infants growing up bilingual have the learning capacities to make sense of the complexities of two languages ...

The research mentioned in this article was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, grant RPG-2015-024. Tomas Folke receives funding from Economics and Social Sciences Research Council. The ability to speak ...

Simone’s mom reads, sings and talks to him in French. In fact, Melissa Da, a French-American from Baltimore, only speaks her native language to the 2 1/2-year-old. The goal? To raise him to be ...