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School Specialty Unveils $50,000 School Makeover Sweepstakes

School Specialty is excited to announce the launch of its first-ever $50,000 School Makeover Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes invites eligible individuals to nominate their school...

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ACTFL Tests for China

Language Testing International’s (LTI’s) Oral Proficient Interview computer system (OPIc), developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), was introduced...

Studies Highlight Success of Head Start

New studies from UC Berkeley, Georgetown University, and the Hamilton Project at Brookings reveal that Head Start—the nation’s oldest and largest early education program...

How Language Affects Color Vision

How much does word Blue affect the color blue? More than you may have thought... While it may be surprising, humans’ ability to detect color...

Deaf Artist Creates Visual Art about ASL

Artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and throughout her life thought that sound was only for able-hearing people. When she began making art...

Ten Spanish Words That Come From Africa

African culture and language has had a massive influence over Latin American, South American, Caribbean, and other Spanish-speaking countries not only culturally (from Samba...

Bilingual-that’s HOT!

Forget dieting or styling your hair-learn another language! Americans and Brits find multilingualism attractive in different ways, according to Babbel's Perception of Languages Survey. Babbel...

Californians Favor English Plus Another Language

California voters both prioritize the learning of English and recognize the value of speaking more than one language, according to a new study of...

Québec and New Brunswick Unite to Promote French

New Brunswick and Québec are celebrating 400 years of Francophone history by signing a joint declaration on the Canadian Francophonie, as a testimony to...

Respect My Name

Campaign to encourage correct pronunciation of students' names seeks support My Name, My Identity: A Declaration of Self is an initiative created by the Santa...

Views on Turkey’s Educator Purge

Last month, Language Magazine published an article outlining the draconian measures being taken by the Turkish government against teachers in the wake of the...

New York Times Launches Free en Español App

The New York Times has introduced an NYT en Español edition of its news app for Android that features all of the content available...

Taiwan to Protect Indigenous Languages

Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen has issued the first apology in the country’s history to its indigenous people. Tsai took office in May amid expectations...

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