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Texas Bill SB4 Threatens Vulnerable Students
With the recent approval of Texas Senate Bill 4, many of the state's most vulnerable students will face new obstacles accessing the education they need to become contributors to our society. The bill, which was signed into law during a Facebook Live broadcast on Sunday afternoon by Governor Greg Abbot, puts a startling halt to "sanctuary cities" and the security they provide to the parents of documented and undocumented children in Texas.
New Directions for Technology Use in ELL Instruction
As K–12 districts aim to improve learning for a wide range of students facing unique challenges, education leaders need to be particularly mindful of the English language learning (ELL) student population. Of all the students in public schools in the U.S., an estimated 9.3% were ELLs in the 2013–14 school year. Though ELL students have made strides in reading, leaping 22 points in average fourth-grade reading scores from 2000 to 2015, this group of students is consistently behind their non-ELL peers in this area.
Improving ‘Speech Marks’
Pamela J. Sharpe offers tips to help students prepare for the speaking section of the internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language...
Indigenous Children the Focus in New Animated Series
Australia’s National Indigenous Television channel (NITV) has launched a new animated series that brings Indigenous issues to the forefront in a novel way for...
Study Suggests Repetition Works and Works
According to a new study focusing on language acquisition in the brain, even short repetitive exposure to new words induces a rapid neural...
Summer Literacy Resources
Language Magazine explores different methods and resources for students to keep up with their studies over the summer in fun ways.
Start With a Book
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Help Your Students Slide Up, Not Down, Over the Summer
During the summer months, young children lose literacy gains made during the school year,...
Inspiration from Live Interaction
Bryce Hedstrom explains why attending quality conferences is key to administrative development
Going to a conference is like attending a live performance. It is interactive,...
Fluency Matters to Readers
Fluency Matters offers a wide range of compelling leveled readers specifically designed to facilitate language acquisition with novice to intermediate level students. All readers...
A Futile War
Ross Thorburn rejects the illogical insistence upon banning mother tongues in the second-language classroom
The War on Drugs
In 1998, the United Nations decided that it...
Tell Congress to Support World Languages
The Trump Administration's FY 2018 budget blueprint proposes a $54 million increase to the Department of Defense, to be offset by cuts to programs...
Tensions in Teaching Spanish
Ann Abbott sees tensions in Spanish programs that cannot hold
In one of my...
