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 ...

Elementary foreign language teaching positions in Fayette County Schools are being moved to middle schools, Fayette school board member Amanda Ferguson said. In a text message to the Herald-Leader, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...