Tag: english
States’ Commitment to English Learners Examined
Two reports have been submitted to the U.S. Department of Education which examine the extent to which states’ education plans are in step with...
Standardized Testing Detriment to Minority Children
Over the last year or so, the movement against high-stakes standardized testing has subsided, maybe due to educational activists focusing their attention on more...
RULES on the Run
Learning, remembering, and using the stress and intonation patterns of North American English can be complicated and cumbersome. The interference of using one’s native-language...
K–2 Library Resource PebbleGo Expands Its Spanish Content
Capstone’s K–2 online resource PebbleGo has added new Spanish materials. The latest offering, contextually translated to maintain proper academic vocabulary and supported by natural...
myON News: Putting More Fun into Nonfiction
From futuristic features on flying cars and fun facts about the rainforest to the latest football stats and fashion trends, who said nonfiction reading...
Escalate English
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Escalate English is an English language development program designed to accelerate English learners’ growth in grades 4–8. Students with social English...
Report Challenges California’s System to Identify English Learner Needs
Study of local plans identifies key improvements to fix the system
Californians Together is releasing a new report today entitled Masking the Focus on English...
‘Due Status’ for Hindi
India’s New Education Policy, which is currently being formulated, will give Hindi its “due status,” according to the country’s minister for human resource development,...
This Dictionary Illuminates the Meaning of Everything
Richard Lederer celebrates “the most impressive collective achievement of our civilization”
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the greatest monument ever erected to the...
States’ Commitment to English Learners Examined
Two reports have been submitted to the U.S. Department of Education which examine the...
