Tag: education
Multilingualism Makes It into Biden’s Budget
Under President Biden’s budget request for fiscal year 2024, the Department of Education would receive $90.6 billion in discretionary spending, a $10.8 billion (or...
Application Now Available for Title VI International Research and Studies Program
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Office of the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for fiscal...
Content, Language, and Culture Learning Targets
Lesson planning is a political act. Schools in...
New Arabic Publishing Strategy Announced
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Culture and Youth has launched a new strategy to overhaul its literature and publishing industry. Noura Al Kaabi,...
The Case for Acquired Phonics
Researchers in second language acquisition have hypothesized that there are two very different ways of gaining knowledge of language: acquisition and learning. Learning results...
Budget Compromise Ditches Child Tax Credit, Increases Education Spend
To secure the minimum of ten Republican votes to avoid a filibuster, Democrats were forced to abandon some priorities, including reauthorization of the Child...
Canada’s Census Prompts Bilingual Education Plans
Last month, Canada’s commissioner of official languages Raymond Théberge reacted to the release of the latest Census data related to official languages by recommending...
Celebrating International Education Week 2022
Nov. 14-18, 2022
International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the...
Program Models over Potluck
(November 2022) Ayanna Cooper emphasizes the importance of using instruction models that suit particular students but always believing in their potential for success
