New Haven’s two comprehensive high schools will introduce a “Pashto Native Heritage Speaker” course this school year for its increasing population of students who need to improve their writing and ...

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 the United States but ...

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 ...