From the introduction: "How do students’ experiences in 90/10 dual language education (DLE) models differ from students in 50/50 DLE models? This is the big question researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and George Mason University sought to investigate in the Bilingualism, Education, and Excellence Project (BEE project), a research study funded in 2018 by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the U.S. Department of Education. As Part 1 of a two-article series, this article will describe how the BEE Project got started, what the researchers hope to learn, and what has been learned from the project so far"