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 ...

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 ...

While universities are creating international student-only departments, Gachon University went even bigger — launching a ...

Enrollments in foreign-language courses tumbled nearly 17 percent between the fall of 2016 and the fall of 2021, the largest decline in the six decades the Modern Language Association has been ...

It’s clear from declining enrollment in foreign language courses in colleges and universities across the country that students are losing interest in language learning. As a result, institutions of ...

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 ...

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 ...