The Trump administration is clamping down on other languages as it formally begins implementing the president's order making English the country's sole official language. Many government agencies have ...

Estos políticos limitaron el uso del español en 1879, impactando a California por más de un siglo The United States is living a golden age of Spanish speaking. Millions of people count it as their ...

The English-only requirement follows decades of debate in a region where many households speak Spanish and multilingual ...

Two Tennessee Republicans have proposed a bill requiring all driver's license tests to be administered in English only. The bill would also ban the use of translation dictionaries, electronic devices, ...

Language rights advocates have begun to create community college classes in Spanish and other languages to increase access to education. What's the history of Spanish in California? Delegates to a ...

Students who were once English learners but are now proficient in English do better on average on California’s standardized tests than students who only speak English. Some district leaders and ...

Groups warn that Nigeria's reversal of its mother tongue education policy threatens indigenous languages and cultural ...

While federal law requires schools to provide language services for students classified as English learners, states and local districts have broad discretion in the types of education programming to ...

K-12 educators in the United States are still federally required to support English learners’ acquisition of the English language, regardless of any official national language designation. That’s the ...

For parents who want to give their babies the best possible start in life, a recent book offers advice that runs counter to a tendency of some in the United States to seek English language-only in all ...