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California Commits to Literacy Target and Bets on Biliteracy
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has announced an initiative to ensure that not only will every student learn to read by...
Questioning the Test
University admissions officers and faculty strive to recruit and admit students who, either at the time of admittance or after additional English language preparation,...
Assessing Change
Our ability to adapt to new situations is key to success. However, change often happens too slowly for us to recognize it, so it...
Family Advice
According to the U.S. Department of Education’s recent report Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America’s Students: “For many elementary...
Reading Programs
Although initial test data show that in fall of 2020, students in grades 3–8 performed similarly in reading to same-grade students in fall 2019,...
South African and European Universities Form Consortium to Boost Use of Indigenous Languages
South Africa’s university system notoriously lacks instructional programs offered in the nation’s Indigenous languages, like isiXhosa and Sesotho. Currently, English and Afrikaans are the...
Make English Truly a World Language
(September 2021) Venice Irving and Anna Hearrell explain how cultural awareness can bridge the English divide
Curing Initiative Fatigue
Stacy Hurst and Laura Axtell explain how to kick off the new school year with buy-in from everyone
For many educators, the beginning of the...
Supporting Secondary Struggling Readers
Secondary teachers are at a disadvantage when it comes to reading instruction. So much of the focus beyond fourth grade is on meeting English...
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Instruction Are NOT the Way We Learn to Read
An appropriate way to honor Kenneth Goodman is to describe a presentation I gave recently as a guest lecturer in a class at the...
Creating Contentment
In our media-saturated environment of ubiquitous devices, streaming video, and the pressure to keep up with instant messages and social media, students are often...
Balancing in Sync
Inequalities. Growing failing rates. Achievement gaps. Learning loss. The concerns I had for students falling into the student categories of the “haves” and “have...
