Years ago my brother went on a Fulbright scholarship to the Spanish University of Salamanca, accompanied by his wife and young daughter, Mardel, who was of beginning school age. There were good ...

Educators in Diamond Lake District 76 were filled with pride when Illinois' top school official praised them recently for academic improvement. A few weeks later, though, the district got a different ...

Supporters of bilingual education are hoping that the election of Barack Obama as president will lead to a thaw in attitudes toward what they consider a proven educational method that has been ignored ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, Education Week published several stories about the rise of bilingual education in this country and how, even then, the educational method was running into political ...

Raising your kids with more than one language is easier said than done for many of us. We may have every good intention starting out but soon find it hard to keep up. There are many different ...

For centuries, we have had an indigenous education system in Gurukuls, where worldly knowledge and life lessons were imparted at an individual level. Here, a tailor-made approach to education was ...