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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — As you walk the halls of Rosa Parks Elementary, you’ll hear a mix of Spanish and English as kids arrive for the first day of school. Third grader Lincoln Oien started his ...

For the first time ever, the Escambia County School District will bring formal foreign language instruction to elementary school students, thanks to a nearly $3 million grant from the U.S. Department ...

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 ...