Twenty-three Alaska Native languages have been recognized alongside English as official Alaska state languages for a decade, but until this month there was no measure by which its schools could gauge ...

Twenty-three Alaska Native languages have been recognized alongside English as official Alaska state languages for a decade, but until this month there was no measure by which its schools could gauge ...

When Alaska students learn to read in English, they aim to meet specific expectations and standards that measure their proficiency. Yet when they learn to read in their Alaska Native language — many ...

FAIRBANKS — Village elders have worked with researchers for years to document the slate of native languages found across the state. Many of those languages, including Lower Tanana, are extremely ...

Eds: UPDATES: Updates headline. With AP Photos. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive damage to homes along Alaska's western ...

Evacuee children displaced by ex-Typhoon Halong wait in the lobby of their temporary hotel housing for a bus to take them to College Gate Elementary, where students spend half their time learning in ...

A group of 14 Indigenous educators in Alaska is proposing new standards for how Alaska Native languages — some of which are on the verge of dying out — are taught in the state. In January, the Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An immersion program that helps preserve an Alaska Native language has been a boon to children displaced by last month’s severe flooding in western Alaska. After Typhoon ...