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Rigorous Reading
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey suggest strategies to help students engage with complex texts
Fourth grader Mario sits at his desk, staring at the page...
Immigrants, Their Languages, and Their Children
Alex Poole presents three modest principles to facilitate familial bilingualism
Headlines like “Majority of Americans Want Immigrants to Learn English, Poll Says” (Benedetti, 2013), columns...
Personalize Literacy and Language Instruction with E-Books and Audiobooks
OverDrive offers teachers an ever-growing collection of tools for literacy and language instruction and access to an extensive digital library of e-books and audiobooks....
Enjoyable Testing that Works, Really
Deborah Blaz finds that integrated performance assessments motivate students
If you Google “IPA,” you will first find lots of posts about alcohol (India pale...
All You Need is Read
Dianne Henderson and Gene Kerns offer practical strategies to help all students reap the benefits of reading
A new report says that nearly half of...
Vancouver to Erect Language Revitalization Pole
In part with the 2019 UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages, the First Nations Education Foundation has announced that a Language Revitalization Pole will...
When One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Sara Davila addresses the challenges of mixed-ability classrooms
Have you often found that, even with a reliable placement test, many students in the same class...
Evaluating Continuing Education
Julie Yaeger explains how to find the perfect professional learning fit
As teachers, we all buy in to the power of learning. Learning keeps us...
Brexit Could Devastate Celtic Languages
The European Language Equality Network (ELEN), with its Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Cornish member organizations, has issued a warning about the “potentially disastrous effect...
America’s Languages Caucus is Born
On November 12, the offices of Congressmen David E. Price (D-North Carolina 04) and Don Young (R-All Alaskans) announced the establishment of the Congressional...
Paul Simon Study Abroad Act Reintroduced to House
Representatives Cheri Bustos (IL-17) and John Katko (NY-24)
recently reintroduced the bipartisan Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program
Act. The bill would establish a competitive grant...
Accessibility and Inclusivity in Language Education
Education, in general, is facing issues with providing
students with accessibility options; likewise, that inevitably affects the
field of language acquisition. What can educators do to...
