Chapter 4: Dismantling Triple Segregation Through Two-Way Immersion

This chapter explores the segregation of Hispanic students, particularly those who are multilingual learners (MLs), and the potential of two-way dual language immersion (TWI) programs to facilitate greater integration. Our analysis finds that in 2018–2019, North Carolina’s TWI programs successfully enrolled a multiracial student body. TWI programs were less likely than other schools to be intensely segregated and no TWIs were hypersegregated. Thus, TWI programs offer one important avenue for integrating schools in a manner that fulfills a new conceptualization of integration in which students from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and linguistic backgrounds learn together in classrooms.