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July 2007
The American Evolution
According to California’s Governor Schwarzenegger, immigrants should avoid Spanish-language media if they want to learn English quickly. Now the Governor may not be an expert on language acquisition, but he has managed...
August 2008
Creating Global Classrooms
As fuel prices inflate the cost of travel and concern for the environment increases, the ideal that everyone should have the opportunity to study abroad becomes less attainable. At the same time,...
September 2006
Funding Our Children
Closing the achievement gap between English language learners and their English mother tongue counterparts is one of the greatest challenges to face our generation. Initially, President Bush’s flagship education policy, the...
December 2007
Choosing a Candidate Who Can
The political and economic landscape has changed dramatically since the beginning of the year. Last December, we were tentatively anticipating the effect that the new Democratic- controlled Con-gress would have...
June 2008
Multicultural Education is No Luxury
During difficult economic times, there is a general acceptance that education should endure budget cuts like all public services. We are led to believe that the most we can...
July 2008
A Trilingual America
Barack Obama’s recent suggestion that “everybody should be bilingual...or trilingual” has been met with a barrage of criticism from conservative commentators claiming that he is criticizing Americans who speak only English...
October 2006
Bridging the Digital Divide
Two new reports have highlighted the growth of the “digital divide” between Spanish-speaking minority students and English-speaking white students in the U.S. As Diana Laurillard makes clear in her article...
October 2007
Ten Years is a Long Time
in Education
Back in 1997 when, the first issue of American Language Review — the forerunner of Language Magazine — was published, Bill Clinton was in the White...
November 2007
Worlds Apart
While business leaders are saying that our “education system must be strengthened to increase the foreign language skills and cultural awareness of our students in order to confront the twenty-first century...
November 2008
Greater Expectations
In a recent commentary published online in Education Week (Give Latin a Chance, September 22, 2008), Baynard Woods, a public school teacher from Washington DC, explained how his experience convinced him that...
