Blogger Fired for Homophone Phobia
Today’s bloggers need to get creative to attract readers and web traffic in a virtual world saturated by blogs about every imaginable topic. Some succeed on the merits of their writing alone, while others...
$2.5 million to Promote Tribal Control of Schools – Deadline 9/12/14!!
To help ensure that all students attending Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools receive an effective education delivered to them by tribes, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs...
MIT Study Reveals Secret to Language Learning – Don’t Try Too Hard
Proof that language learners should let it flow
In a new study, a team of neuroscientists and psychologists led by Amy Finn, a postdoc at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, has found evidence for...
US High School Internationals Triple
Over the past several years, inbound international students coming to the U.S. to earn a high school diploma have grown at a much higher rate and they now out-number those travelling to the U.S....
California Adopts First English Framework Based on Common Core
Today, the California State Board of Education adopted the English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework for California Public Schools (Framework). This is the first time in the nation that a state has adopted dual...
Brussels Summit for Global Education
Today the Global Partnership for Education held a summit in Brussels, gathering hundreds of global education leaders, ministers and representatives in a pledge to raise $3.5 billion in educational aid.
The summit follows the...
U.S. Raises Bar for Special Education Standards
The US Department of Education has announced it will begin monitoring the progress and achievements of students with special needs, with aims of boosting their academic success.
The Obama administration expressed on Tuesday that a...
Speech Therapy App Helps Brain Injury Sufferers Recover Language Skills
Lingraphica: The Aphasia Company today announced the release of TalkPath Therapy for iPad and the Web– an award-winning app component of a speech-therapy solution to help adults suffering with aphasia.
The integrated-cloud based initiative has...
Learning by repetition blurs nuance
A new study by University of California, Irvine neurobiologists Zachariah Reagh and Michael Yassa have found that while repetition enhances the factual content of memories, it can reduce the amount of detail stored with...
Foreign Language Skills Deemed a Necessity in UK Business Firms
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has announced nearly two thirds of 300 recently surveyed UK businesses prefer staff with foreign language skills.
The statement comes ahead of the CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey...