“Teacher! Here are 22,” says the cook at the Guachipelín School in San José when she hands Alexandra Wong Carbonell a bowl of 22 bananas. Teacher Ale has been the school’s only bilingual preschool teacher for four years. That’s why everyone in the school, including those who are not her students, calls her “teacher”—unlike the … Continue reading Starting small: Costa Rica creates language immersion for public preschools