Hispanic Serving Institutions Hit Hard by Pandemic
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) has issued a call-for-action for additional funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) that were forced to abruptly end or quickly transition classes online due to the COVID-19...
Omnibus Budget Boosts Education Spending
Last month, Congress passed the final Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which included a nearly $3 billion increase in education spending.Most of the extra funding will go toward Title I, which saw...
Summer Learning to Help Students Most Impacted by the Pandemic
At the end of April, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) launched the Summer Learning & Enrichment Collaborative, providing support to 46 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Bureau...
Adding Madness to Method
Carol Gaab questions the value of traditional teaching methods in the language
classroom
Nothing draws more heated arguments in the field of language instruction than methods. Between trademarks and remarks, there has been much divisive debate...
ASHA Recommendations for In-Person Instruction
According to the U.S. Department of Education’s report Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America’s...
Early Language Key to School Success
Kim Echart of the University of Washington News reports on a new study which shows that early use of words and grammar determines...
Risk-taking
Rumi in the Language Classroom Series Vol 3
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One of the poems of ‘Masnavi-e-Manavi’ of Rumi depicts how risk-taking can lead to...
Bill Could Fund California DLLs
California Assembly Bill 2514 (Thurmond) Pupil Instruction: Dual Language Grant Program, introduced by Assembly Member Thurmond in February, is sponsored by the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) and Californians Together. AB 2514 would...
Helping Bilingual Researchers
Melanie Curl demonstrates how using youth-friendly databases helps increase literacy among English language learner
In classrooms that include both English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers, educators face the unique challenge of teaching these...
College Language Enrollments Continue to Fall
According to “Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Summer 2016 and Fall 2016: Preliminary Report,” by the...