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As a Frenchwoman who has lived in Australia, I’ve noticed it’s often the same French words that give English speakers the ...

The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

October, the U.S. Transportation Department says 345 commercial drivers in Arizona failed the English proficiency test and ...

DONKOR Long after political independence, Ghana still wrestles with a subtler inheritance: the dominance of foreign languages over native tongues. On the dawn of 6th March 1957, as Kwame Nkrumah and ...

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A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime ...

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify ...