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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite some concern last spring about funding for the University's Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum program, new courses are being offered under the program's auspices this fall. "Spanish 229: ...

DANVILLE – Danville schools' foreign-language program could get a boost thanks to a state grant. The $30,786 planning grant comes from the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Arts ...

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 ...