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Published by the Valdosta Daily Times, September 8, 2014 Tuesday wasn't an ordinary first day of school. It also meant the first day for the school's new Spanish dual-language immersion program, where some kindergartners and first-graders will learn in English half the day and in Spanish the other half. The school received $15,000 from the Wyoming Department of Education to help start the program this year. It is the second dual-language program in Casper. 
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Published by WSILTV,COM on September 5, 2014 Illinois wants to see more of its students learn foreign languages. About 10 percent of public school kids in Illinois are considered bilingual. Now, the state wants to recognize those high school graduates with a Seal of Biliteracy on diplomas. The Seal of Biliteracy started as a pilot program near Chicago. By the end of this year, the State Board of Education wants to expand the option to all the district. Illinois wants to see more of its students learn foreign languages.
About 10 percent of public school kids in Illinois are considered bilingual. Now, the state wants to recognize those high school graduates with a Seal of Biliteracy on diplomas.
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Published in Chalkbeat New York, August 28, 2014 New York City Schools Cancellor Carmen Fariña announced Wednesday that Milady Baez, an expert in dual-language programs, will come out of retirement to run a newly independent office of English Language Learners. That department had previously been grouped with special education under Deputy Chancellor Corinne Rello-Anselmi. Baez’s appointment signals the department’s growing focus on dual-language education programs. More than 14 percent of city students are classified as English language learners, and most of them are enrolled in English as a second language programs, in which teachers use both the student’s native language and English. When students become proficient in English, they exit those programs. Dual-language programs have a different aim—for English-learners and native English speakers to become fluent in both languages—and students don’t have leave the programs once they are no longer classified as English learners. A 2013 report notes bilingual programs “are in the midst of a period of steady expansion.”
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Published in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, August 25, 2014 (Oregon) The Corvallis School District has been increasing the scope of its dual immersion program in recent years, and now a private school and a new preschool will continue the trend
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Portland Public Schools Press Release, January 28, 2014 The Portland School Board on Jan. 27 approved expansion of Dual Language Immersion programs starting this fall. Spanish and Chinese immersion programs will expand and the district will launch the state's first Vietnamese Dual Language Immersion program. Dual language immersion is a high leverage approach to close the achievement gap for emerging bilingual children and other historically underserved populations in Portland Public Schools. It will also add more schools offering highly sought-after language programs - expanding Chinese and Spanish Immersion programs to three new schools in North Portland and launching a Vietnamese program at Roseway Heights K-8 in Northeast Portland. With 27 years of experience implementing Dual Language Immersion in five languages across 11 programs and in 21 schools, PPS is recognized nationally as a leader in the immersion education field. Programs are result of collaboration PPS has established the programs in collaboration with community, university and research partners. Local data and national research shows that Dual Language Immersion is effective in closing the achievement gap for emerging bilinguals and significantly reducing the dropout rate as students can continue progressing in academic content in their native language while learning English, increasing achievement and engagement. Currently 4,000 students participate in Dual Language Immersion programs throughout PPS. The expansion will increase that by approximately 200 students in the first year. By time the first class in the new programs graduates from high school, approximately 2,600 additional students are expected to be in Dual Language Immersion programs. The expansion follows an extensive engagement process with community stakeholders, school and district staff that began in fall 2012. Read more. "We are thrilled to be able to expand our Dual Language Immersion programs," said Superintendent Carole Smith. "These programs are proven as a highly effective strategy for our emerging bilingual students and prepare all students to succeed in our increasingly diverse and interconnected global society."
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Published by LA School Report, July 9, 2014 LA Unified plans to expand its dual language immersion program next fall, adding Spanish language programs to three elementary schools.
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Published by the Oregonian, July 19, 2013 updated July 22, 2013 In the coming years, Portland Public Schools may become one of the few school districts in the nation with a dual-language immersion program for Vietnamese. Supporters from the Vietnamese community say the effort could keep their culture alive in younger generations and help students with increasingly globalized industries; district officials say the effort could help better serve English Language Learners, though the program will be open to all students. Immersion programs, which have been growing in popularity in the U.S., teach core subjects in both English and another language to foster fluency in students. Portland Public Schools has long been a leader in language immersion within public schools, debuting Spanish immersion classes at Atkinson Elementary School more than 25 years ago. The RAND Corp. nonprofit think tank is currently studying the effects of dual-language immersion within the district in a three-year, $1.7 million study funded by a federal grant. Local interest in language-immersion programs has further blossomed in Portland Public Schools and surrounding districts. Portland Public Schools had about 3,700 students in language-immersion programs in the just-concluded school year, and the number will jump past 4,000 next year
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Published in the Huffington Post, August 16.2012 Earlier this month, Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois signed new legislation designed to strengthen the state's bilingual education programs into law.
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Published in the Modesto Bee, July 28, 2012 (California) Dual-language programs have won over parents by creating strong family connections and academic excellence.
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Published by Oregon Live.Com, July 10, 2012 The RAND Corp., a nonprofit think tank, will study the effects of dual-language immersion on student achievement in Portland Public Schools with a three-year, $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. Jennifer Steele, a policy researcher at RAND who will serve as the study’s principal investigator, said Portland's lottery-based language immersion programs will provide a strong backdrop for a randomized study. Researchers will compare OAKS test scores in math, language arts, and science, as well as attendance and behavior data, between students in the language immersion programs and their classmates who applied but did not get into the classes. Portland has long been a leader in language immersion. Atkinson Elementary School’s Spanish immersion classes were created more than 25 years ago, and the district plans to offer 11 immersion programs this fall: eight in Spanish, and one each in Japanese, Mandarin and Russian.
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Published in the Times Herald Record, April 9, 2012 (New York) Middletown's two-way bilingual education program started two years ago, and it's going to expand to higher grades — the kids who will graduate first grade this year will continue with two-way bilingual education in second grade, said Kristin Kerr, director of bilingual and English-as-a-Second-Language education. She said the district hopes to offer two-way bilingual education all the way through fifth grade. By then, she said, she hopes all the students will be fully bilingual.
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Published in The Summit Daily, April 5, 2012 (Colorado) The dual-language program at Dillon Valley has been in place now for seven years, with the first batch of children to go through it finishing up the sixth grade at Summit Middle School this spring. And besides the obvious benefits of knowing another language, teachers and administrators at DVE say the knowledge assists students in their education of culture, in the workforce as they grow older, and maybe even in the way they think.
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Published in California Watch Daily Report, March 22, 2012 (California) About 50,000 students are enrolled in dual-language programs in California, state Department of Education officials say, and about half of them are English learners. Ninety percent of the programs offer Spanish as the second language, followed by Mandarin (4 percent), Korean (3 percent) and other languages (3 percent).
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Broadcast by Omaha KETV, September 7, 2014 Dual-language programs are already running in several other OPS schools, giving students the chance to continue through graduation. In all, nearly 2,500 children participate across OPS with 200 more on a waiting list. It seems that even lessons in Spanish help both English language learners and native English speakers to perform on standardized tests. OPS research shows dual-language students matched or outperformed peers in three-fourths of the data points they surveyed from 2013.
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Broadcast on KEYETV on August 29, 2014 With stretched resources districts are doing what they can to keep up, knowing these students hold promise and can compete at a higher level. "What we found is that English language learners who have excelled in bilingual programs actually outperformed their peers who were never English language learners," said Dawson. "Which makes sense -- we're asking them to learn subjects in two languages.
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Published in the Minneapolis StarTribune, August 26, 2014 Minnesota students who are learning to speak English held steady on both the math and reading portions of the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments.... So steady is good news. And big changes are coming soon to the way schools go about helping English language learners as a result of several new policy changes that lawmakers approved this spring. In general, those changes prompt schools to recognize the value of being bilingual. Specifically, the new law requires: schools to use strategies that teach reading and writing in the students native language and English at the same time; teacher candidates to be trained in content instruction for English learners and teachers seeking to renew their license demonstrate content instruction in English for students learning how to speak the language. "(Being bilingual) is an asset," said Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius. "The business community certainly sees the value of having a home language and that's a good thing."
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Published by the Modesto Bee, May 23, 2014 The Osborn Two Way Immersion Academy celebrated two decades of two languages, marking a milestone in Central Valley history as well as a tale of achievement against the odds. What started in 1994 as a few classes in a neighborhood school has grown into a magnet campus serving 870 students. It is expected to grow to 970 students next year with the addition of an early kindergarten program, said Principal Ed Ewing, “and we’ll still have a waiting list.” The program also had to survive the 1990s anti-bilingual education movement that peaked with the 1996 passage of Proposition 227. The initiative outlawed teaching in anything but English outside of foreign language classes. Parents had to sign waivers each year to keep their children in dual language classes, and the program struggled to find enough native English speakers to balance classes. That has changed, Ewing said: With so many English-dominant students signing up, it is a challenge to balance with native Spanish-speaking kids. There are now more than a dozen two-way language immersion programs in this area. Nationwide, more than 850 such programs exist, with a surge in interest over the past three years adding 150 to 200 a year.
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Published in the Medical Express, December 4, 2013 A comprehensive review of research on young Latino and Spanish-speaking children confirms that widely available public programs are helping dual-language learners make important academic gains. We also found some support across several studies both for using English as the language of instruction and for incorporating the home language into strategies that focused on language and literacy.... And none of the studies detected any negative effects of early education programs and instructional practices that target dual-language learners."
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Published by PRI, December 25, 2012 The Hmong culture has been a resilient one for centuries, enduring wars, genocide and mass migration. But the culture is under threat in the United States. A new elementary school immersion program in California aims to preserve it, and make it real to the children of immigrants.
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Published in Education Week, August 28, 2012 Bilingualism helps immigrant children in low-income communities overcome the cognitive challenges that poverty presents, according to a new study.
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Editorial Published in South Coast Today, July 29, 2012 (Massachusetts) One of the numerous factors accounting for the troubled state of New Bedford's schools is the inability of the system to deliver satisfactory educational results for students lacking proficiency in the English language.
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Published in The Modesto Bee, July 28, 2012 (California) The evidence is in: Dual-language programs work, pushing test scores of English learners well above the norm by sixth grade and turning the achievement gap on its ear.
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Published in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, June 4, 2012 (California) [t]hese students do better on the state tests than the English only students. "Most of them score proficient or advanced on the tests," Leon reported. Whichever language you're using, the students in the Spanish immersion class all agree its Fantastico! Maravilloso! Excelente.
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Published in the Twin Cities Daily Planet, April 29, 2012 (Minnesota)
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Published in Education Week, March 23, 2012 (United States) Growing numbers of schools are offering dual-language classes, where teachers split instruction between English and a second language.
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