But the Master Plan includes several new proposals for dual-language learners that advocates hope will improve their education outcomes. There is no clear data, for example, on how many of these ...

A conversation before your child starts the preschool program gives you a chance to explain how your child communicates. Every dual language learner is different — some may speak (or understand ...

Advocates say the expansion of transitional kindergarten is an opportunity to offer high-quality preschool to more children who speak a language other than English at home.

One of the goals of identifying preschoolers who speak a language other than English is to help them maintain that language, said Carolyne Crolotte, director of the dual language learner programs ...

Given what is known about the brain science of language acquisition, early support for dual language learners in state preschool programs could give Latino children an advantage. But most state ...

There’s an accruing pile of evidence that teaching in English and a child’s home language in the preschool and early elementary years is best for young dual-language learners, both for ...

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Brain science says children learn languages young, so efforts are underway to start dual language programs before kindergarten.

A new way of teaching dual language — putting native English speakers and students whose first language is Spanish in the same preschool class — in Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 ...

The dual-language-learner population in the United States has grown by about 24 percent since 2000, and now represents about 32 percent of children ages 8 and younger.

A Boston preschool hosts the first-ever Toussaint L'Ouverture Dual Language Academy, teaching Haitian Creole in the classroom.