Focus on Student-Centered Learning
In Future-Focused Learning: Ten Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice, published by Solution Tree, author Lee Watanabe-Crockett details how educators can shift instruction to focus on student-centered learning competencies to...
Cuba Educational Policy Reversal Condemned
President Trump has announced a new executive action restoring restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba, "I am canceling the previous administration's completely one-sided...
Can Paraprofessionals Help Solve the Bilingual Teacher Shortage?
In 1992, Liliya Stefoglo came to America from Moldova and found work as a paraprofessional in Federal Way Public Schools in Washington State....
OELA Hosts Multiliteracy Symposium
On May 6, the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) hosted a multiliteracy symposium. The theme of the symposium was "Celebrating the Diverse Linguistic and Cultural Assets...
UN: Multilingual Education is ‘Absolutely Essential’
Learning languages is a promise of peace, innovation, and creativity, and will contribute to the achievement of global development goals, the head of the United Nations agency for culture and education said last month...
$71 Million for International Studies
The U.S. Department of Education has also awarded more than $71 million in new and non-competing continuation grants to help strengthen the capacity...
Ed. Dept. under Scrutiny for Civil Rights
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
According to the agenda for 2019 posted on its website, the U.S. Department of Education’s internal watchdog, the...
Budget Cuts Fly in the Face of Education
While boosting defense spending by $54 billion, the Trump administration’s proposed FY 2018 budget seeks to cut the Education Department’s $68 billion budget by $9 billion, or 13% in the fiscal year starting October....
A Network of Teachers for Globally Connected Immersion Classrooms
This summer, for the first time, there will be a special event designed to bring immersion and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) educators together. The Inaugural NICE conference will...
Obama Pushes to Secure Extra $2 Billion for Poorest Schools
The Obama administration is hurrying to approve a proposal that could mean up to $2 billion in additional funding annually for the nation's poorest children. The Department of Education is pushing through the policy, which...