When the British first took control of Manhattan in 1664, over 18 immigrant languages were already in circulation on the ...

Experts spoke with Education Week about the potential challenges and opportunities an official U.S. language creates.

Today, about 1.5 billion people speak English. Only about 400 million of those speak it as their first language. It is the ...

American history shows that people can express their patriotism in many languages — and they can just as easily express ...

For the first time in our history, an American president has declared by executive order that English is the official ...

Our growing embrace of English wasn’t the only thing S.I. Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about. All the kumbaya they ...

About 68 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. The vast majority, 241 million, speak English and no ...

The order, which was signed Saturday, will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the ...

The order will rescind a mandate “that required agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide extensive language ...

It rescinds a federal mandate that requires agencies and other recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance ...