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New Bilingual Educator Grant Opens for Dual Language Teachers to Help...
Hispanic English language learners are now one of the fastest growing student populations in the country. Due to limited state and federal funding, bilingual teachers...
Science of Reading Bill Fails in California
California Assembly Bill 2222 (see April...
Paraguay Offers Korean in Schools
Starting this year, middle and high school students in Paraguay can learn Korean as a second foreign language subject, according to the Ministry of...
Winners Announced for 2024 Crystal Apple Awards
School Specialty today announced the 2024 winners of its annual Crystal Apple Awards, which celebrate teachers who embody inspiration, leadership, and passion in teaching.
Each...
Chinese ‘Linguistic Coup’ in East Africa
As part of its goal to displace American influence, China is winning linguistic hearts in East Africa (a bloc of 300 million people), by...
Ukraine Focuses on Minority Languages
Last month, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in cooperation with the European Union and the Council of Europe, organized a round...
Learning Chinese Stimulates Both Temporal Lobes
New evidence suggests that studying Chinese and learning to write Chinese characters may train a whole array of cognitive abilities not developed by learning...
California District Introduces Hindi
The board of Silicon Valley’s Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) has voted to introduce Hindi as a world language into its curriculum, making it...
California Bill Requiring Kindergarten Exempts Early English Testing
Parallel California Assembly (2226) and Senate (1056) Bills...
