EAST LANSING (AP) — A rising demand for teachers of Arabic in the state considered the capital of Arab America has led Michigan State University to launch new undergraduate and graduate programs.

Since terrorists from Arab countries attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government has been desperately seeking to hire Arabic speakers. But even now, more than 2½ years later, the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X New Syrian flag, at a May Roberto Clemente AAPI celebration. NHPS Supervisor of World Languages ...

Kate Adams is the principal of the new Arabic Immersion Magnet School in HISD. She said her biggest goal is for students to develop a global mindset. Five-year-old Van Crouser was recently hanging out ...

Language isn’t just a way to communicate for Nashaat Mehany. It’s a way to connect. The Egypt native will spend the next year teaching Arabic in the Tomah Area School District, but Mehany also hopes ...

While there are many qualified and dedicated teachers in the Arab school system, teachers in Jewish schools have, on average, a higher level of education and more years of teaching experience. This is ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Before taking Arabic language classes at Denver’s North High School, Rachel Saghbazarian had to ...

DEARBORN, Mich. – A middle school history teacher in a heavily Arab Detroit suburb has been transferred for telling students that Bedouin Arabs (search) used the Quran as toilet paper. The Woodworth ...