Ada Rios Torres grew up speaking Spanish in Puerto Rico. When she was 25, she taught herself English by watching and listening to videos. It took her five years to master the language. She moved to ...

Meeker Elementary School’s Noheli Batres came to the United States from Mexico in third grade as a non-English speaker. Reflecting on the difficult time she faced navigating a new language in a new ...

EVERETT — Last week, Sofia Sierra, a second-grader at Emerson Elementary in south Everett, read a book about volcanoes aloud. “Cenizas y vapores emergen de la montaña. La roca fundida y caliente sube ...

Basalt Elementary School is celebrating 30 years of its Dual Language Program, a model that has helped shape generations of bilingual learners through equal instruction in English and Spanish. The ...

SUFFERN — Kindergartners sit in a circle sounding out new spelling words. "Mug," the children repeat and they spell it out. In the class next door at RP Connor Elementary, students in their partner ...