Opinion–Can We Make Chinese Less Graphic?
While many schools are dropping foreign language classes, the number of schools offering Mandarin Chinese courses is rising. In 2001, about 300 schools...
Rebuilding a Diverse Edustructure
For some Americans, the federal government investing a single dime in education is considered an overreach of power and an insult to the Constitution, which lays out that the responsibility for all functions not...
Heritage Values
Last month, the United Nations and people around the globe celebrated International Mother Language Day by focusing on the movements to restore the status of indigenous and heritage languages and other mother tongues, and...
That Figures
One of the definitions of figure is “a diagram or picture.” At the most basic level, figurative language is language that names or describes an image with words.For example, if we say “words paint...
Multiplying Divisions
Daniel Ward argues that the digital divide is not just a connectivity problem
The sudden closure of schools across the U.S. is resulting in very different experiences for students depending on their ages, languages, zip...
Teachers Don’t Add Up
Instead of further denigrating the education profession by suggesting that teachers double up as armed bodyguards in the wake of the latest school shooting, we need to be taking radical steps to improve their...
Capitalizing on America’s Languages
We’re at an unprecedented point of opportunity for education reform in the U.S., but we need to ensure that adopted reforms rejuvenate our systems and make them more flexible to suit the diversity of...
Sharing Study Abroad
The recent college admissions scandal has focused much of the nation on the competition for places at top U.S. universities, and the extreme measures that seemingly rational people will take to secure an advantage...
Opinion: Listen to Teachers
As teachers and students prepare for the new school year, many school administrators are scrambling to fill vacancies,...
A Letter of Apology and Hope from America to its People
To the people who gave me life,I have failed and hurt you. I have turned my back on my people when you needed me the most. And, in truth, I’ve tried to erase the...