American interests include developing experts in the languages and cultures of other nations, and the study of more obscure languages and cultures may need to be subsidized to have sufficient experts ...

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona championed multilingualism for all students, as well as improved programming for the nation’s English learners. One of the last major projects he ...

Enrollment by college students in foreign language courses dropped a record 16.6% between fall 2016 and fall 2021, according to the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) most recent census, released ...

For 67 years, the Department of Education has administered grants to universities to create centers devoted to foreign languages and area studies, a field focused on the study of the culture of a ...

The U.S. Department of Defense is withdrawing funding for more than a third of the 31 language flagship programs it supports at 23 universities across the country. The move, which a department ...

When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs that received foreign language study grants through the Education Department breathed a sigh ...

American Sign Language (ASL), used by half a million Americans, is the fourth most studied foreign language at colleges and universities. Despite its critical role for those who can't use spoken ...

At Pueblo Elementary, a dual-language school in Scottsdale, Ariz., students, including English learners, learn core subjects in both English and Spanish. The schedule looks like this: Students in ...