Louisiana has a long history with the French language, and while most Louisianans no longer speak French, a growing number of schools are immersing students in it - all kinds of it. Member station ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...

Most people know French dialects exist in the state of Louisiana, but few know there are French dialects native to Midwestern states, including Missouri. Old Mines, Mo., an unincorporated village in ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

With more than two decades of experience in higher education, cultural criticism and politics, Horacio Sierra's writing and public speaking aims to demystify higher education and promote the ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.