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August 2004
Time to Ditch the Agenda
The body of evidence supporting bilingual education and the long-term benefits of multilingualism is growing steadily. Last month, we reported on a Canadian study that suggests bilingualism helps seniors to...
April 2004
Literacy Concerns
In an age where other forms of media compete with the printed word, educators and policy makers have been looking for ways to get people to read more books. In Georgia, for example,...
November 2004
Learning Outside the Box
As we enter the final phase of the U.S. elections, it has become apparent that the next president will be chosen on the basis of foreign policy. This is a reflection...
June 2004
Enshrining English
So, Virginia Representative Virgil Goode and the ten co-sponsors of his proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution (see News, p.10) think that linguistic diversity is such a threat to this country that we...
January 2009
Bringing Online Sales in Line
As we enter the New Year with a new Administration, any optimism amongst educators is being tempered by the recession’s effect on state and local tax revenues, and the...
February 2009
Plugging the Achievement Gap
Every January, Education Week publishes its annual review of the U.S. educational system and this year, for the first time, the report focuses on English language learners (ELLs) while examining states’...
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...
How Long is Too Long
Diego Uribe presents a study of attaining academic English proficiency
The immigrant student population in U.S. schools is on the rise. According to Kohler and Lazarín (2007), more that 24 percent of elementary school children...
Playa and More
México and Costa Rica are deservedly two of
America’s favorite tourist destinations and they also offer
a wealth of Spanish immersion opportunities
México
México is a vast (over 750 thousand square miles) and diverse country which defies generalization....
English to Go
M. Catherine OliverSmith describes how expert execution of a simple idea has resulted in an international educational phenomenon
Last month, a brand new company that teaches English around the world using mobile phones, Urban Planet Mobile,...
