Chinese ‘Linguistic Coup’ in East Africa
As part of its goal to displace American influence, China is winning linguistic hearts in East Africa (a bloc of 300 million people), by...
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Chillax, Play Scrabble with a Frenemy
On August 6, Merriam-Webster will release the Fifth Edition of The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, marking the dictionary’s first major update in nearly a...
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...
$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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
U.S. Dept. of State Works to Internationalize Colleges and Universities
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural affairs is to host the fifth annual EducationUSA Forum in Washington, D.C. this month;...
