CARBONDALE ” On any given day, the students in Jen Hamilton’s first-grade class at Crystal River Elementary may be learning in English or Spanish. It’s a good thing that Hamilton is fluent in both. It ...

I've collected 100 common phrases in English that I hear all the time in America. Check your level of English - Comment below with your current level! 1. Stay out of trouble = don’t do anything bad 2.

Students in Europe learn foreign languages in school at a much higher rate than their American counterparts. They also tend to learn more languages throughout their education due to national mandates.

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Encourage discussion as much as possible in your house. Ask your eighth-grader for their opinion about political and social issues, or about books, movies, and TV shows. Listen carefully and prompt ...

Though Justus' bicycle may be swift, it's probably no speedier than the growth of the 6-year-old boy's Spanish skills. Justus is a student in the English-Spanish dual-immersion program at Stockton ...

The USA TODAY Network series Hecho en USA, or Made in America, focuses on the nation's growing Latino community. Roughly 80% of all Latinos living in the U.S. are American citizens, but media coverage ...

A picture of a domino with three dots was displayed on a screen in Jennifer Lopez Romero’s kindergarten classroom on a recent Wednesday at Ronnow Elementary School. “Uno, dos, tres,” her students ...

Here’s a New Year’s resolution that is within reach: let the Hasidic leaders who are denying educational opportunities to tens of thousands of students attending Hasidic schools in New York State stop ...

“La idea de no tener una lengua materna me preocupa. ¿Es como sentirte un nómada dentro de tu propia cabeza? No me puedo imaginar no tener palabras en las que refugiarme. Ser huérfana de lengua.” “The ...

The recent increase in funding for Head Start programs, designed to provide this crucial early-childhood opportunity to a greater number of disadvantaged children, has produced a curiously negative ...

Hoping to help your fourth-grader with reading and writing skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest for any fourth-grader. Encourage your child to learn to make a good argument. If your ...