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 ...

Aspen Elementary School is phasing French out of its curriculum due to a lack of student interest. As of now, French is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luisa Palomo and Emma Dobson co-teach the first group of its kind at Liberty Elementary: 44 students -- roughly half of them native English speakers, half native Spanish speakers.They’re divided into ...

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 ...

In Japan, foreign languages taught in compulsory education are only English, but in the UK there are 41 elementary schools that teach foreign languages, elementary school students going there can ...