The Benefits of Dual Language Education

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More than a third of students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) are not fluent in English, according to a new survey from Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) and HISD. The survey found that the best way to help these students learn English involves teaching them in their native tongue.

HERC is part of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Ruth Lopez Turley, a professor of sociology at Rice and the dir...