The standards deal with language and mathematics in every grade from kindergarten through high school.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Nick Byrne is director of the language center at the London School of Economics.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

Reporter Caty Weaver learned Gibberish and another secret language, called Ibeese,in middle school.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The school also teaches the Shan language because most students did not receive a good education in Burma.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

(Talking) One of the study's author, Eric Halgren of the University of California,San Diego, School of Medicine, says this part of the brain is central to language.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Now,just two do. That's because - while Spanish is still the language in many homes - the children of immigrants from Cuba and other Latin nations speak English in school and on the street, wear American clothes and prefer upbeat Anglo rock music to their parents' dreamy, old Spanish ballads.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19