A new book by veteran public school teacher Johanna J. Haver, Structured English Immersion: A Step-by-Step Guide for K-6 Teachers and Administrators (Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2003), offers ...

VISTA —— The Vista Unified School District has all but given upon its dual-language strategy of educating Spanish-speakingstudents and has been moving to a “structured immersion” program tohelp them ...

Arizona’s Department of Education has released data showing that children in Structured English Immersion classes learn at a swifter pace than children assigned to bilingual education programs in ...

Educators say Arizona’s new plan to train all teachers and administrators in how to teach English-language learners is a good idea, but they say its success will depend on how the initiative is ...

PHOENIX — State schools chief Tom Horne filed suit late Wednesday, trying to get a court to rule any school that doesn’t use “structured English immersion’’ to teach students who aren’t proficient in ...

The Arizona State Board of Education approved revising teaching standards and curriculum to remove DEI language.

Arizona policymakers are using a buzz phrase popular in education circles in saying the models for structured English immersion that school districts must implement this fall are “research-based.” But ...

TUCSON – At a time when one-in-eight students in Arizona qualify for English language services, the state has made controversial and — according to the federal government – possibly unlawful changes ...

One year after the implementation of the Structured English Immersion Program (SEIP), many believe the program has not been any more successful than the program it replaced SEIP separates students by ...

A number of Arizona students will no longer be classified as English learners after state public schools chief Tom Horne over the summer eased the standards for passing a test used to measure English ...