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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Papua New Guinea Sees Decline in Linguistic Diversity
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Spanish as a ‘Language of Interracial Mixing and Understanding’
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Financing Feeling
Committee for Children works with policymakers from around the country and supports laws, policies, and funding that promote social–emotional learning (SEL), address bullying, and prevent child...
UT Austin Statisticians Win Prestigious Award for Language Learning Research
UT Austin statisticians Giorgio Paulon and Abhra Sarkar have been awarded the prestigious Mitchell Prize for their paper on tone learning in adults.
The Mitchell...
How Bilingual?
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Portuguese Exam Record in U.S.
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Reading under Lockdown
Each year, Renaissance releases the What Kids Are Reading report, and each year it grows by leaps and bounds.1 This year’s report looked at...
Afrikaans Goes to Court
The University of South Africa—locally known as UNISA—the largest university system in the nation, has been working on phasing out Afrikaans as a language...
Rebuilding a Diverse Edustructure
For some Americans, the federal government investing a single dime in education is considered an overreach of power and an insult to the Constitution,...
Quantifying Chinese Learning Growth
More than 70 countries and regions had incorporated the Chinese language into their national education system by the end of last year as the...
