The department didn’t respond to a request for an update on the status of the two reports. Foreign-language advocates say they are discouraged that while President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of ...

Colleges hope the nation’s global war on terrorism will translate into more Congressional support for programs that finance and encourage the study of foreign languages, especially those spoken in ...

When Monika Megyesi was growing up in Romania during the despotic reign of President Nicolae Ceausescu, she remembers her mother speaking of the United States as a land of opportunity. Today, like ...

Actually using a foreign language is among the best ways to learn one, and Coe and Cornell colleges believe they've found a way to help students do that while also serving the wider Cedar Rapids and ...

Mary Ann Zehr, Education Week assistant editor. Kevin Bushweller (Moderator): Welcome to today’s chat about foreign-language education in the United States. This online discussion is part of an ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Elsa Borrero, coordinator of the foreign language program for the Windham Southeast elementary schools, has not yet taught her young students how to say "budget cuts" in Spanish. But if ...

A statewide initiative is offering high school students proactive admission to dozens of public and private colleges, ...

School systems across the Washington area are adding foreign language classes in elementary grades in response to a call from government and business leaders who say the country needs more bilingual ...