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 ...

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 ...

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Two local school districts started new programs this year to combine Spanish- and English-dominant speakers in the same elementary school classrooms. Del Valle ISD and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...