MCOE offering new Spanish and Hmong Dual Language Immersion Program The program is the first of its kind in Merced County and is open to pre-school, kindergarten and first grade.

Lincoln's Bishop Elementary has offered a K-5 Spanish immersion program since 2012, where even the youngest students receive 90 percent of their instruction in Spanish.

If dual language immersion programs are so successful, why aren't more California schools adopting them? What are some of the challenges and drawbacks? What are the benefits?

Now the first batch of Cherokee immersion students is about to graduate from high school, a milestone in a grand experiment that is trying to revive the Cherokee language before it is too late.

Though one might think it's Latino families who are mostly sending their children to Spanish immersion schools, this is not the case.

Immersion refers to a method of foreign language instruction in which the language is used as a tool to teach the curriculum, rather than being taught as an isolated subject.

Two-way language immersion helps English-speaking students learn from both their teachers and their Spanish-speaking classmates, and vice versa.

The Denver Language School, a public charter school, teaches students in Mandarin Chinese or Spanish for the first three years — and data show students excel on state tests in later years.

Denver Language School, a K-8 charter school within Denver Public Schools, is providing students with full immersion education in Spanish or Mandarin Chinese, helping create bilingual global ...

Anchorage’s school language immersion programs — among the nation’s most robust for a city its size — are at risk Absent additional funding from the state Legislature, Anchorage’s ...