Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o once described language as “the most important vehicle through which that [colonial] power fascinated and held the soul prisoner”. He illustrated this with a disturbing ...

For more than 150 years, the Wôpanâak language was silent. With no fluent speakers alive, the language of the Mashpee Wampanoag people existed only in historical documents. It was by all measures ...

A review of legislation governing basic education will change the way language policies are navigated at schools. A draft law pushing for multilingualism has not been universally welcomed. Amendments ...

It’s a well-documented fact that children experience better academic achievement and social adjustment when parents are involved in their education, but navigating a school system can be challenging.

If it adopts the policy, it will make it the first school district in the nation to establish a “language justice” policy. The Community Language Cooperative and the Colorado chapter of the education ...

The mission of Denver Language School (DLS) is to promote academic excellence and intercultural competence through language immersion. Founded in 2010, it is the only K–8 public early total immersion ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

School districts across the country are offering students a broad array of target languages to learn in dual-language programs. Schools now offer dual-language education in 18 languages, according to ...

As we continue to live in an increasingly global society, learning new languages has grown in value as a mode of communication, a career advancement tool, and for a deeper understanding of culture.