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 ...

I’m returning to an issue I mentioned in an earlier post, about whether providing the option for students to take tests for many years in their native languages—and by extension, whether offering ...

Evadelia Aldape teaches in a first grade bilingual classroom at H.W. Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow is one of 16 MPS schools with developmental bilingual programs, which are aimed at ...

This generation of K-12 students is growing up in a society that is increasingly bilingual. Foreign language requirements have long been a core requirement for high school graduation and are also part ...