Having taught for nearly a decade, I’ve worked through my share of classroom challenges. Nothing, however, prepared me for the toughest one: teaching my own children to speak Russian, my native ...

When Alla Pearce came to Mecklenburg County 11 years ago, she thought she’d have little chance to speak Russian and Ukrainian, the languages she grew up with. She taught English in Ukraine and married ...

Having taught for nearly a decade, I’ve worked through my share of classroom challenges. Nothing, however, prepared me for the toughest one: teaching my own children to speak Russian, my native ...