AI can help close the gaps. “It will be able to pick up any topic students are interested in and handle the topic reasonably ...

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, ...

California wants half of its K-12 students enrolled in bilingual education by 2030, but a shortage of qualified teachers ...

When Natalie Griffin was elevated in 2017 to oversee a Texas school district’s bilingual program, she inherited decades-long problems in hiring certified teachers. The state put extra pressure on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joanna Serres, a long-term substitute teacher in the Independence School District, has specialized in bilingual outreach to ...

For years, state and local education leaders have known of a shortage of certified bilingual educators who would be qualified to teach in dual language immersion schools. It’s why researchers at The ...

Rice University researchers found higher scores in both reading and math for Houston-area students who continued to learn in ...

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 ...

Facing a shortage of thousands of bilingual teachers, California schools are receiving a $10-million budget boost to recruit ...

Briceño is an associate professor of teacher education at San José State University, where she coordinates the Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy Education master’s program. She lives in San Jose ...