Helping EL Students Learn Math Concepts
Available for implementation in grades K–5 for back to school 2019, Curriculum Associates’ new Ready Classroom Mathematics empowers all students to own their learning through discourse-based instruction...
The Power of Online Kindergarten Prep
A new independent study of Utah’s High-Quality School Readiness Expansion (HQSR-E) Program has found an online kindergarten prep program, Waterford UPSTART, so effective that it recommends making...
ESL and STEM through CALL
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, Teaching ESL and STEM Content through CALL: A Research-Based Interdisciplinary Critical Pedagogical Approach by Abdelilah Salim Sehlaoui...
Humanoid Robot ‘Inspires ALL Students to Explore STEM, Coding, and Programming‘
RoboKind, the creators of robots4autism and Milo, have introduced Jett, the coding and programming robot, along with the robots4STEM curriculum. Designed to...
Topic-Based Nonfiction and Fiction for Tween Newcomers
A new program is aiming to provide paired nonfiction and fiction books that help newcomers learn about the many aspects of living in the U.S. and set...
Multilingual ‘Smart E-Book’
Kamprehend has developed a new, patent-pending “smart e-book” technology to help English language learners (ELLs) or English-speaking children learning another language.
Two Teams Share $7M Adult Literacy XPRIZE
Learning Upgrade's AppXPRIZE, in partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, has announced two grand...
Feb. 14 Deadline for Minority Study Abroad Scholarship
The Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship, which is co-sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), is...
Google Splashes Out on Super Bowl Ad Focusing on Language
Genevieve Finn reports on the tech giant's moves in machine translation and interpretationGoogle is banking on its interpreter taking offGoogle used one of...
Grant Opportunity: GAR’s Educator Initiative Grant (EIG) Program
GAR’s Educator Initiative Grant (EIG) Program is an annual program separate and distinct from the foundation’s regular grant-making in the area of...