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World Teachers’ Day
"Take a stand for teachers!" is the 2012 motto for World Teachers' Day. Celebrations are being organized around the world. UNESCO calls on everyone...
A Day in the Life of a Learner
Ivannia Soto reveals how shadowing learners enables educators to monitor their use of academic language
Academic language has been broadly defined as the language of...
Reading Across America
Read Across America week commenced on March 2. This celebration of literacy also commemorated the birthday of Dr. Seuss and promoted his book, The...
Donating Your Textual Body to Science
Linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists want you to donate your text messages to science. The text4science project, also known as sms4science, aims to build...
Timing of Reclassification Key to ELL Dropout Rate
The National Center for Research on Evaluation,
Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at the University of
California, Los Angeles has released a new report comparing student
enrollment...
The Bogus Argument to Increase Testing
Stephen Krashen argues that assessment alone cannot improve achievement
Few people are aware of the astonishing amount of testing the U.S. Department of Education is...
Reach Out and Read (Aloud)
Stephen Krashen with an inexpensive, simple approach to closing the equity gap in literacy
“Doctors, nurse practitioners, and other medical professionals incorporate Reach Out and...
Multilingual Matters
Maria Maldonado reminds us why language education is still so important in this age of automated communication
The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language which...
Making Learners Click with Digital Storytelling
Nile Stanley and Brett Dillingham see the value in connecting learning literacy, language, and technology through storytelling
What Is Digital Storytelling?
Storytelling is the oldest form...
