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- The Importance of Artificial Intelligence in Education for All Students
- What is Orania?
- Content, Language, and Culture Learning Targets
- Beyond the Myths of Literacy Curricula
- Miami English Recognized as Dialect
- Why UDL Matters for English Language Learners
- Research: Human brain processes native language in specific way, study finds
- The Future of English
- The Science of Reading in Dual Language
$11 Million To Support Multilingualism in Schools
The U.S. Department of Education has allocated over $11 million in grants to support the recruitment and retention of bilingual and multilingual educators, and...
Film Aims to Revitalize Mixtec
Two Illinois State University students recently visited the town of San Sebastián del Monte, a small community in southern Mexico, to produce a documentary...
Arizona Opens Center for Linguistic Revitalization
A new center at the University of Arizona is one of only four designated by the US Department of Education to lead a collective...
Morocco Implements Amazigh for All
Moroccan minister of education and sports Chakib Benmoussa has provided updates on his government’s program to introduce Amazigh language curriculum in all of the...
AI Language models could help diagnose Schizophrenia
Scientists in England have developed a new, AI-based language tool that could help diagnose and assess psychiatric conditions including Schizophrenia.
The research team from University...
English Boom in North Korea
In contrast to its open hostility toward the US, North Korea has been doubling down on English education in its public schools under the...
Research: Human brain processes native language in specific way, study finds
A new study by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carleton University has found the brain’s language network responds...
UN Celebrates Kiswahili
Last month, the United Nations celebrated the third annual World Kiswahili Day with events worldwide and a speech by UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay, who...
Decoding Dyslexia
Dyslexia Canada1 reports that as much as 20% of the population have a learning disability, and Dyslexia is not only the most common, affecting about 750,000 Canadians, it is also the most often misdiagnosed of these disabilities.
This condition has no cure, no drug that can be taken, no surgery or operation can change or reverse it. The only...
Bilingualism under threat: structured literacy will make it harder for children to hold on to their mother tongue
International Viewpoint: NEW ZEALAND
From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy – also known as...
Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall VII: Meeting the Needs of Linguistically Diverse Students
As the benefits of bilingualism and biliteracy become increasingly recognized, the demand for high-quality dual language (DL) and biliteracy programs has increased significantly (Howard...
Dual Language Expectations
In an increasingly globalized world, bilingualism has become more than a mere asset; it’s necessary. It has been estimated that more than half the...
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Make a Plan for Oracy
Schools are placing a greater emphasis on foundational skills than ever before, and rightly so....
Implementing a Bilingual Authorization Program
In Fall 2022, Whittier College’s Teacher Education program launched their online...
To Support the Science of Reading, Replace Disinformation with Collaboration
My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a...
Students at the Center
All educators are teachers of language—and engaging students in thinking about...
Acting UP
When I signed up for an improv theater class, I never thought to combine my...
Scaffolding Success
One of the tools teachers of multilingual learners have at their disposal to move learning...
Collaborative Planning: Never Having to Go It Alone
This experience gave me the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues I don’t usually get...
Reading Foundations
Educators are often left unprepared to meet the unique...
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The Art of Writing?
It’s been a rough few years for elementary teaching and learning. Concerns remain about the progress (or lack thereof) that US students are making in literacy, and there’s no one cause hindering this progress. Many factors have contributed to lower test scores, from the amount of money individual districts...
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Bilingualism under threat: structured literacy will make it harder for children to hold on to their mother tongue
International Viewpoint: NEW ZEALAND
From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy – also known as “phonics” or the “science of reading” – to teach children how to read. But the...
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Beyond the Myths of Literacy Curricula
When I set foot in my first kindergarten classroom more than 15 years ago, I quickly realized how many...
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Science of Reading Bill Fails in California
California Assembly Bill 2222 (see April issue, p. 9: “California Bill Would Mandate Science of Reading”), which would have required teachers...
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To Support the Science of Reading, Replace Disinformation with Collaboration
My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a private school in Austin, Texas, for students with...
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California Bill Would Mandate Science of Reading
A newly introduced California Assembly bill would require the state’s teachers to be trained and reading to be taught only according to the principles of the Science of Reading. AB 2222, introduced by Assemblymember Blanca Rubio, a Democrat from...
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Small Investment Offers Big Literacy Gains
Research by Stanford University found that 75 of the lowest-performing California elementary schools that received funding from an out-of-court settlement made significant progress on third-grade state Smarter Balanced tests this year.
Major news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times,...
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Background Knowledge and Where to Get It
Stephen Krashen argues that those who read more know more
Wexler (2023) has pointed out that a reader’s background knowledge is a significant predictor of reading proficiency. She concluded that “greater background knowledge of the topic was correlated with...
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Early one summer, my parents moved our family into a 900-square-foot house in the central part of town that would become home for...
