Driven by the war in Afghanistan, instructors at four colleges are scrambling to offer traditional and distance-education courses in Pashto, a language virtually untaught in America but spoken by more ...

Afghanistan faces one of the world’s lowest youth and adult literacy rates – a consequence of four decades of conflict, natural disasters and poverty that has profoundly impacted the country’s ...

The nationwide competition is open to students from the age of four and encourages people to send a drawing or writing that shows how learning a language has made a difference to a student's life.