The U.S. Department of Education announced last week more than $8 million in available grant funding across three key initiatives for Native Students. The new grants seek to bolster Native students' ...

The planned closure of the language center threatens decades of work preserving one of the world’s most diverse linguistic ...

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

Does learning a new language have to come at the cost of your native language? One common phenomenon in English-speaking countries is the loss of mother languages over the course of a few generations.

This article has been updated to correct the portion of the state represented by Rep. David Eastman. A bill by a Juneau legislator adding three Alaska Native languages to those officially recognized ...

Classrooms at Unalaska City High School are usually empty on Friday evenings as students and staff headed off for the weekend. But on one winter Friday, things were different. A group of people ...

Everyone knows that picking up a second language grows more difficult with age. And in a new study, scientists have pinpointed the age at which your chances of reaching total fluency plummet: 10.

COLUMBIA — When students across South Carolina sat for their state standardized tests in May, tens of thousands were looking at math problems or science questions that weren't in their native tongue.