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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 children by having the main characters be Indigenous siblings. NITV...
Language Magazine’s Short Guide to the Oscars Foreign Language Nominees
The annual awards ceremony is under way this month, and the race for best foreign-language film is under way. This year’s nominations have been in the news particularly more because of the Iranian director,...
Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year 2016 is POST-TRUTH
post-truth adjective
Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
Oxford Dictionaries has announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of...
Boosting Middle School Math and Literacy Standards
Judith A. Pirani finds a technology-enabled solution to help seventh to ninth graders
Many students who enter high school underprepared have trouble making it past ninth grade, and a natural question arises as to how...
January 2016
Language of Inclusion
TIME Magazine chose German chancellor, Angela Merkel, as its 2015 person of the year because of her defense of humanitarian principles in welcoming a million Syrian refugees despite opposition from her political...
Arabic is America’s Fastest-Growing Language
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) recently released Census Bureau data from the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) showing that a record 63.2 million U.S. residents five years of age and older speak a...
August 2015
Diplomatically Speaking
Over the last month, the art of diplomacy has been in the spotlight—we’ve seen the signing of an historic nuclear agreement between the U.S., the UK, Russia, Germany, France, China, the European Union,...
Spanish as a Vehicle for Social Change
Kristal Bivona, Sandra Ruiz, and Daniel Ward discuss the movements and histories that made Spanish such an important language for activism
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido...
U.S.-based activists, whether Latin or not, have likely heard...
Profile: Mohamed Abdel-Kader
With his basic Spanish and fluency in Arabic, Mohamed Abdel-Kader’s term as deputy assistant secretary in the office of International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) at the U.S. Department of Education will be short...
Executive Action
With his basic Spanish and fluency in Arabic, Mohamed Abdel-Kader’s term as deputy assistant secretary in the office of International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) at the U.S. Department of Education will be short...
