Society-wide Benefits of DACA
According to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has had a "significant impact" on the educational outcomes of undocumented immigrant youth, including a 15%...
Bringing Chinese to Preschoolers
Lauren Cortinas presents a
solution for the youngest learners of Mandarin
In October 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing entirely in Mandarin Chinese. While his delivery was not perfect, the...
Billion Won Funds New Center for Critical Korean Studies
The University of California, Irvine is launching a Center for Critical Korean Studies funded by a 1 billion-won grant (about $850,000) from the Academy of Korean Studies and led by principal investigator Kyung Hyun...
First Catholic Mass in Native Nahuatl Language
The first Mass conducted in Mexico's most prominent indigenous language, Nahuatl, was held in the country's most important church, the Basilica of Guadalupe. Nahuatl is a living language, although its best-known form, Classical Nahuatl,...
New Study Links Lifetime Brain Benefits to Education
A new study, Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest links brain benefits over the span of a lifetime to increased education. The new study...
Netflix Unveils New Spanish-Language Mexican Drama
Netflix has just released its new Spanish-language series, Ingobernable. Netflix has had its fair share of success recently in the Spanish-language department, most...
U.S. Students Outperform International Peers
A new Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) report shows that U.S. 15-year-old students scored above average on the 2012 problem solving assessment in comparison to their peers in 43 other education systems. The...
The Successful Revival of the Chitimacha Language
Only a small portion of the world's 7,000 languages have extensive written records. Those that are the least well-documented are the most in danger of disappearing. Due to European contact, through wars and disease,...
Brown Can’t Retire at 65
School segregation increasing as we mark 65th anniversary of
Brown v Board of Education
As the nation
marks the 65th
anniversary of the landmark Brown v Board of Education
ruling declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional, the UCLA
Civil Rights...
Dismantling Racism: Working from the Inside Out
America is crying everyone’s tears. Crying because of all she stands for—the freedom, liberty, and opportunity that has not been genuinely extended to all. The recent senseless killings of Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna...