The United States lost ground over the past decade in the proportion of elementary schools that offer foreign-language lessons, following a decade during which those schools had increasingly launched ...

Tarwater Elementary School, located in Chandler, Arizona, has the only Mandarin Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in the Chandler Unified School District. The Chandler Unified School District ...

When it comes to lessons in other tongues, Kevin Fitzgerald, the superintendent of the Caesar Rodney school district in northeastern Delaware, is never at a loss for words. He speaks with pride about ...

It is a huge step forward for Hoklo-language education, and hopes are high that it could pave the way for more schools around the country. In immersion schools, all teaching and communication on ...

SANFORD — The fifth-graders in Mei-En Marler’s classes at Bentley Elementary can politely tell you what they ate for lunch, ask directions and introduce themselves — all in Mandarin Chinese. Her ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Former Ann Arbor Public Schools Spanish teacher Erica Peplinski-Burge noticed something during her years of teaching before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic -- children’s social ...

The Poway Unified School District has received more than $1 million to introduce all elementary school students to global languages and culture. The Avery-Tsui Foundation of San Diego will award ...

"Harvard is no place to learn a foreign language." With this terse statement, a teaching fellow in an elementary Italian class here expressed a view which has become prevalent among faculty and ...

English is a commercial lingua franca in many parts of the world, but English alone is no longer sufficient for global professionals who must compete and collaborate in a global economic environment.

Arguments over the College's language requirement have a life-cycle much like a volcano's. Elementary language courses annually rate least popular in the Confidential Guide, a majority of the students ...