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Free Online PD Program Focuses on CCSS & ELLs
"Constructive Classroom Conversations: Mastering the Language of the Common Core State Standards" is the title of the massive online open course (MOOC) which is...
Leveling the Playing Field with High-Speed Internet
Tina Walker sees the closing of the digital divide as key to overcoming the achievement gap
President Obama’s ConnectED Initiative calls for 99% of America’s...
September 2013
Leveling the Playing Field
Tina Walker sees the closing of the digital divide as key to overcoming the achievement gap
Mutual Understanding
Clorinda Donato and Pierre Escudé...
Cutting to the Common Core: Making Vocabulary Number One
Dr. Kate Kinsella offers strategies for prioritizing vocabulary for competent text analysis, discussion, and constructed response
Shifts in Text Emphases and Response Tasks
The Common Core...
A Country of Many Canadas
Learning French in Canada has never been easier, and the quality has never been better
It’s not surprising that close to 200,000 students come to...
A Country of Many Canadas
It’s not surprising that close to 200,000 students come to study in Canada every year, and that number looks set to double over the next...
Estonia Suppresses Russian
Moscow has accused the Estonian government of denying the rights of the Russian-speaking Estonian population in response to a rejected petition for four Russian-language high...
First Chinese Scripts?
Archeologists in China are debating the significance of recently discovered inscriptions dating back 3,000 years. The Global Times, China’s state-run newspaper, reported that the inscriptions, unearthed...
PRC and Taiwan Collaborate on Linguistic Report
Mainland China and Taiwan are putting aside their tense history to work together closely on a joint language report about their respective dialects of the...
Shabaka: World’s First Arabic Top-Level Domain
Beating out nearly 2,000 other applicants from around the world, Shabaka. (meaning “web” in English) will become the world’s first borderless new top-level domain and...
£5 Million Boost for Languages at UK Universities
This month, British universities will start receiving an additional £3.1 million ($4.8 million) to support a new program designed to encourage more young people of...
One Hispanic World
Spain's education, culture and sports minister called for the creation of a common cultural market of the Spanish language at the close of the...
