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 ...

My 2-year-old son's first language is Spanglish. He likes ice in his agua, the color azul, and las vacas, or cows. "Baby vacas," especially. Lately, his favorite song is "Señora Vaca," a little ditty ...

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 ...

Children are, by nature, extremely curious. And that’s precisely what makes them so good at learning. Pennsylvania’s public elementary schools should be taking advantage of the time up to age 8, when ...

In language classes in area elementary schools, students spend less time memorizing vocabulary lists and conjugating verbs and more time speaking and writing the language. “We may be learning fewer ...

Kindergarten students at Bakersville Elementary School will be enrolled in a two-way Spanish immersion program next fall, making the Manchester School District the first in the state to launch a ...

A classroom sits empty at Morton Middle School in Lexington, Ky., on Monday, April 20, 2020. Ryan C. Hermens rhermens@herald-leader.com Elementary foreign language teaching positions in Fayette County ...

At 11 a.m. Thursday morning, 8-year-old Josie Riberdy popped into her homeroom class to grab a folder. Then she walked through her school’s media center, down a hallway and into another classroom. The ...