Schools across the country, regardless of location or size, have reported difficulty in hiring teachers—particularly those with specialized skills, like special education teachers. Also on the list?

For students learning a second or foreign language, text is often simplified to ensure that they can comprehend it well enough to understand the core message. Usually, complicated text in a foreign ...

"Doesn't everyone everywhere speak English?" "I took four years of high school French and couldn't understand anything when I got to Paris." "How can we teach a foreign language to young kids when ...

As a student I learned only a smattering of words in my high school German classes. I’m not alone. Less than one percent of Americans master a foreign language in the classroom. And like, I suspect, ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. In my previous post, I told the story of two Russian spies who became indistinguishable from native speakers of their second languages and identified two factors that ...