“Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” and now — thanks to a new Trump executive order — describes the status of the English ...

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 ...

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Henry is the author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell Detroit News, December 1906. Roosevelt sits stunned in a boxing ring after losing his match with the ...

English learners accounted for 10.6 percent of all public school students in fall 2021, up from 9.4 percent in fall 2011. That’s according to federal data updated in May which tracks this student ...

For Quebec City’s tiny English-speaking community, a former jail turned library serves as an essential sanctuary in a metropolis where the domination of French is enshrined in law. By Ian Austen ...

The English learner population in the United States stands at about 5.2 million students. Sixteen percent of these students also have disabilities. So, in addition to English-language instruction, ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English when they ...

Tatsuya Amano receives funding from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and Discovery Project. Despite growing calls for diversity, equity and inclusion in science, a new study reveals ...