Two recent trends in education are diversifying how students learn, but converging to create a major challenge for educators: Multilingual education is on the rise. Since the 1990s, the number of U.S.

Seven BPS schools will launch new multilingual education programs in the 2025-2026 school year, the district announced Monday, marking the largest single-year surge in BPS’s language offerings.

Hilda Robles instructs fourth-grade students learning about body parts in Spanish in Clinton County’s Bi-Literacy program. (Photo by Esmeralda Cruz) Throughout rural America, non-native English ...

In today’s world, multilingual contexts are the norm rather than the exception. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Atlas of Languages reveals that ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Healey-Driscoll Administration has awarded over $2.3 million in grants to 32 school districts and charter schools to strengthen multilingual programming, enhancing ...

A new UNESCO report, Languages matter: Global guidance on multilingual education, released on International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2025, highlights the urgent need to include ...

International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is celebrated on February 21 New Delhi: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrates International Mother Language Day ...

Amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, community leaders say the dread of deportation has turned the trip to school into a risk some families won’t take, leaving fewer multilingual ...

There is clear evidence that learning in multiple languages, starting with the mother tongue and then gradually adding national and global languages, is good for cognitive abilities and does not ...