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Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall III

Premise: Nationally, there is a higher demand for biliteracy....

Deconstructing English Learner Labels, Constructing Multilingual Schools

Across tens of thousands of US schools, a myriad of labels, from limited English proficient, former limited English proficient, and English...

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Cutting to the Common Core: Sticking to the Script

Timothy Shanahan reassesses the role of handwriting in literacy development My father, who had no more than an eighth-grade education, wrote in a beautiful Palmer...

October 2014

Cutting to the Common Core What Does CCSS Mean for Early Learning? Benjamin Heuston explains why a publisher has adapted its early learning materials to complement...

Arabic for America

Carine Allaf outlines the benefits and challenges of learning Arabic at K–12 In a highly globalized world, in which country borders are increasingly permeable and...

100K Strong in the Americas to Announce Grant Competition 9/15

The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund will be announcing another round of grant competitions on September 15. Funded by a contribution from the Coca-Cola Foundation, ...

September 2014

Testing Reformed Lance Knowles explains how advances in technology and cognitive neuroscience allow us to assess and modify the quality of learning and practice Animating All...

Operation Accent

Justyna Kozyra-Bober asks if later learners are on an impossible mission to sound like natives After you get over the idea of sweet Felicity spying...

We Are Family

Mary Catherine Thomson enthuses about the long-term success of a sister school program For a small school community rooted in Sandy Springs, Georgia, Holy Innocents’...

Tools for Achieving Oral Fluency

Marsha Appling-Nunez finds help for the multilevel ELL classroom Many new English language learner (ELL) instructors first begin teaching with the idea that their students...

Cutting to the Common Core: My Students Can’t Read So How Will They Write?

Hillary Wolfe recommends building strategic scaffolds to assist adolescent writing One of the biggest instructional shifts resulting from the Common Core State Standards is the...

Huffington Post to Launch Arabic News Site

The Huffington Post announced the launch of a new Arabic-language news site, HuffPost Arabi. The online news site will target the Arab world’s younger...

Keeping It Real

Pat Guiney advocates the use of authentic content in the language classroom For years, theorists and cutting-edge language educators alike have been advocating a move...

Bright Learners, Big Country

Kristal Bivona returns from China full of its promise. China is the future. After a short time in one of its gargantuan metropolises, it becomes...

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