US Spanish Fact-Checking Site Launches
Poynter’s PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize–winning fact-checking newsroom, has launched a new Spanish-language experience, PolitiFact en Español (www.politifact.com/espanol), to help more than 40 million Spanish...
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Concern Grows Over School Staff Shortages
A new national survey finds deep public concern about the K–12 school workforce—83% of Americans express concerns about public school staff shortages, while 81%...
Comprehensive Study Predicts Loss of 1,500 Languages
A comprehensive study warns that 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century. Published in Nature Ecology and...
Russian Newspaper Defiantly Publishes in Ukrainian
Russian newspaper editor, Dmitry Muratov who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, is publishing Friday's edition in Ukrainian as a show of solidarity...
FY 2022 Language Resource Centers Program Competition
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education has announced the opening of the competition for the fiscal year...
Could French Prevail in Europe?
France’s European affairs minister Clément Beaune is taking advantage of France’s presidency of the European Union’s (EU’s) Council for the first time since Brexit...
New National Effort to Address Effective Literacy for Multilingual Learners
Researchers, educators, teachers, administrators, school board members, and advocates with expertise in literacy and the education of English learner/emergent bilingual students have come together...
UAE Launches Arabic Declaration
Last month, at the Expo 2020 Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, VP and deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
California Commits $3 Billion to Community Schools Strategy
Last month, California state superintendent Tony Thurmond announced the formation of an advisory board to help guide the work of the California Community Schools...
What Does It Mean to Ask ‘How Does Ukrainian Compare with Russian?’
To ask “How does Ukrainian compare to Russian?” is to admit that you’ve heard of Russian but didn’t realize that Ukrainian was even a...
UN Warns on Post-Pandemic Child Literacy
On last month’s International Day of Education (24 January), UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that education must be central to recovery plans from the pandemic,...
Ethiopian War Sparks Conflict in Ohio
The original trustees of the Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Columbus, Ohio, have accused its clergy of switching the language of services...
Chinese Private Schools Crash Again
Last month, share prices in Chinese education companies plummeted again after rumors spread that President Xi Jinping will intensify a crackdown on the sector,...
