With classrooms empty and hallways quiet on a Monday evening, Sanjuana Alanez sat at a desk at Montalvin Elementary School engrossed in learning to use a bilingual talking picture dictionary. Alanez, ...

Children from families in which English is not the language of the home represent a rapidly increasing percentage of students enrolled in U.S. schools. Language minority students can be found in ...

The walls of one Northside Middle School classroom are decorated with basic English vocabulary. A bookshelf in the back, however, contains books of all different languages. And a question on the white ...

A dual Spanish- and English-speaking program is planned at two schools next year for 83 children, following North Shore School District 112 Board action. Red Oak School, in Highland Park, and Oak ...

As a new year presents students with another semester of classes and a wide array of opportunities to create new friends and experiences, it offers others the opportunity to take the English as a ...

The Marriott is offering a new program called Sed de Saber, or Thirst for Knowledge. It is a portable, take home tool for employees who want to learn how to speak English. This program allows ...