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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...