Post written by François Grosjean. Over the last years, we have been impressed by, and have reported regularly on, what has been called, "the bilingual advantage". It is the proposal that the ...

One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...

Five years ago, the California Department of Education set a goal that half of K-12 students would be literate in at least two languages by 2030, and three-fourths by 2040, to be achieved by ...

San Francisco, California, is known for its multicultural population, with a large majority of the population being fluent in Spanish. The city has bilingual education programs and supports Spanish ...

For more than 50 years, Milwaukee Public Schools’ bilingual education program has been providing native Spanish speakers with the instruction to become fluent in English while maintaining a strong ...

California needs to mandate bilingual education in districts with significant numbers of English learners and invest much more to support districts to offer it, according to a new report released ...