BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) continues its partnership with Télé-Louisiane, bringing viewers eight all-new episodes of La Veillée, a 15-minute weekly look at the happenings, ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.

In 2021 Louisiana was home to an estimated 250,000 French speakers, considering the fact just a generation or two ago Louisiana had a million French speakers. Created in 1968, the Council for the ...

Preface -- Nathalie Dajko and Shana Walton -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Connie Eble -- Indigenous languages -- The Chitimacha language: a history -- Daniel W. Hieber -- Kowassaaton Ilhaalos: ...

NEW ORLEANS — The number of French speakers in Louisiana has fallen over the decades. Between 1921 to 1974, the Louisiana Constitution banned French as the primary language taught in public schools, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to New Orleans on Friday will draw further attention to the trend, as well as highlight Louisiana’s rich linguistic history. That includes the various French ...

One of the things I enjoy about Louisiana is that keeps in touch with its French heritage. I live in the Lafayette area and enjoy events like Mardi Gras, Le Festival Acadiens et Créoles, Le Festival ...

The first thing you realize when you enter the classroom filled with eager 5th graders is that, though the school is in the heart of New Orleans, no one is speaking English. “Quel est cet objet?” ...

Most Louisianans no longer speak French, but a growing number of schools are now immersing kids in it. At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on... Louisiana has a long history with French. This ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...