In foreign language classes, students learn to become better communicators. Learning a new language forces students to cope with the vulnerability of expressing themselves with fewer resources.

Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and ...

A Senate committee Thursday approved a bill aimed at allowing high-school students to take computer-coding classes as an alternative to learning more-traditional foreign languages.

The "learn to code" programming language movement is getting confused with human foreign language learning, and that's so very misguided and wrong.

Computer programmers and software engineers are urging that students, even as early as elementary school, learn how to design and write source code for computers.

Though coder Jeff Atwood thinks coding isn't for non-computer geeks, we can think of a lot of reasons normals should learn computer language.

But the proposal also would allow computer coding classes to replace foreign language courses. It shouldn't be an either-or proposition. Both are important and contribute to a well-rounded education.

One candidate language would be Python, it’s freely available and one of the easier programming languages to learn – compared, say, to C/C++.