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Cuéntame: Meg Medina named Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Award-winning Cuban-American author Meg Medina has today been announced as the Library of Congress’ National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
Notable for her Merci Suárez series, Medina has accepted the two-year position which involves traveling...
CAN$39 Million to Support Indigenous Languages in the North
CAN$39.4 million is being invested to support the efforts of communities, organizations, and governments in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut to reclaim, revitalize, maintain, and strengthen their languages.
The announcement was made on behalf of...
January 2023 Inside the Issue
Telling Our Own Tales
Pam Allyn and Ernest Morrell suggest ten ways to help every student harness the power of story
Taking a Stand! Moving Forward: Advocacy for Our Nation’s English Learners and Emergent Bilingual Learners
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UNESCO Commits to Inclusive Multilingual Education
“Language is a tool, but the goal is not simply to exchange one language for another but to have an educational and social project,” explained Adama Ouane of the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning...
French-Speaking World Connects in Tunisia
The 18th Summit of La Francophonie, held in Djerba, Tunisia, last month, attracted national leaders from an array of French-speaking countries who worked together to define new decade-long guidelines to ensure a broader influence...
Keying In K–12 Equity
This is the fourth school year educators, students, families, and administrators will be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. While recent data from NWEA shows early signs of rebounding,1 which offers some hope, the research...
Congressman Panetta Becomes America’s Languages Caucus Co-Chair
The Joint National Committee for Languages has announced Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-California 20) as the new House co-chair of the America’s Languages Caucus.The America’s Languages Caucus was established in 2019 by Representative Price (D-North...
Using Oral History to Share the Truth
(January 2023) Mary Romney-Schaab uses the case of an Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi era to highlight the value of oral history
Young Readers Struggle in Different Ways
Many children struggle to learn to read, and studies have shown that students from a lower socioeconomic status...
Word of the Year: Gaslighting… Honestly!
In this age of misinformation—of “fake news,” conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls, and deepfakes—gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time. A driver of disorientation and mistrust, gaslighting is “the act or practice of grossly...
