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Inuit App for Children
To help his daughter retain the Inuit language, Vancouver-based Qajaaj Ellsworth has created an online game and application software. The language is indigenous to the North American Arctic as well as parts of subarctic...
Census Shows Native Languages Count
For the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau has compiled four years of data to see how many speakers of North American Native languages reside in the U.S., where they live across the country,...
Celebrating Costa Rica’s Customs
Romy Morales suggests the inclusion of festivals to your itinerary or Spanish culture class
International travelers’ thirst for activities that delve into the genuine culture of their hosts has grown in popularity over recent years....
April 2011
A Land of Contrasts
No matter which party is in power or what time of year it is, there is one thing that you can be sure of in America — whatever your viewpoint; there...
Funds to Document Endangered Languages
Over 30 projects worldwide will receive a total of nearly $4 million to help preserve examples of linguistic diversity
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced the...
The Elephant in the Education Policy Room
James J. Lyons argues that multilingualism should be the centerpiece of federal education policy
More than three years after the current version of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) known as No Child...
April 2011
A Land of Contrasts
No matter which party is in power or what time of year it is, there is one thing that you can be sure of in America — whatever your viewpoint; there...
July 2004
The Language of Choice
The emergence of the Hispanic community as America’s largest and fastest-growing minority is having a fundamental effect on the nation by bringing Spanish into the mainstream of American culture.
According to estimates...
March 2009
A Proven Bailout Plan
After a period of sustained economic growth in the 1980s — when Finland became known as the Nordic Tiger — in the early 1990s, the Finnish economy collapsed, partly as a...
Diversity in Teacher Education
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has released a new volume, Studying Diversity in Teacher Education, published by Rowman & Littlefield on behalf of AERA. Although there is a considerable body of knowledge on...
