Brittainy Simpson grew up in the hearing world but was considered an oral deaf, a person who is born deaf or becomes deaf before they learn how to...
AMHERST — Older immigrants to the region, including those without English skills and a formal education, will benefit from development of a new...
EASTHAMPTON — Five years after first pitching the idea of a dual-language program in the city’s schools, School Committee member Laurie García is...
HOLYOKE — For someone sitting in the Holyoke City Council chambers on Tuesday evening, the meeting would have seemed quotidian, at least by...
In Maria Roldan’s preschool class at Joseph Metcalf Elementary School, students were buzzing with excitement on Friday as Roldan — wearing a flower...
On a recent evening at Northampton’s International Language Institute of Massachusetts, the students in Rachel Martins’ English class were studying...
I agree with Gazette columnist Shaheen Pasha (“We have a language problem in the United States,” Feb. 14) that bilingualism is an excellent thing...
AMHERST — A dual-language program is moving closer to reality in Amherst, where the School Committee on Tuesday discussed potential options ahead...
BELCHERTOWN — Some Belchertown students and alumni are mourning a major blow to the district’s Latin language program after the resignation of a...
AMHEST — An idea that has been floating around the public school district here for decades may finally have moved a step closer to reality — a dual...
During a series of drives with her partner, Amy, through Duchess County in New York a few years back, Ruth Lehrer had to laugh when the couple kept...
When Kory Stamper, just a couple years after graduating from Smith College, responded to a want ad for an editorial assistant position for a...