"Nearly 40% of California's students are multilingual learners, yet the state's teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly ...

Evidence is mounting that speaking more than one language does more than ease travel or broaden cultural horizons, it may ...

FIU’s School of Education and Human Development has received $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education to recruit, train and support educators to better serve bilingual and multilingual ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. Like all other walks of life, academia is not immune to fashions. In the study of bilingualism, one such trend has been the study of “the bilingual cognitive advantage” ...

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 ...

Learning a new language is not a skill reserved for translators. Although the US Department of Labor has estimated a steadily rising 42 percent increase in demand for interpreters, it turns out that ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education has unveiled a substantial investment exceeding $11 million in grants aimed at enhancing the recruitment and retention of bilingual and multilingual ...

Multilingualism is an asset, which Rhode Island law already recognizes. Our schools should, too, write two state legislators in support of a proposed scholarship fund for aspiring teachers. Our Rhode ...