$300M Federal Grants to States for Distance Learning
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has announced more than $300 million in discretionary grant funds will be made available for states to use to create adaptable,...
50 years of Francophonie
The date March 20 is recognized by the OIF as the International Day of La Francophonie. The UN regularly cooperates with the OIF and its member states...
Baby Talk Translates Best
In the largest study to date looking at how infants from across the world respond to the different ways adults speak, psychologists found that babies respond best...
Last Speaker of Sare Language Dies
On April 4, Licho, one of the four last speakers of the Great Andamanese language family and the last speaker of the Sare language died of tuberculosis...
Join the Bilingual Revolution
What if every child could be offered a bilingual education? According to NYC’s Fabrice Jaumont, the power is in our hands to do it and he’s hosting...
COVID-19 Poses Grave Health Threat to Indigenous Communities
Native Brazilian group playing wooden flute at an indigenous tribe in the Amazon The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave health threat to Indigenous peoples around the world....
Germany Considers Big Picture of Lockdown
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the inspiration behind Germany's cultural & linguistic institute. Unlike most other countries, Germany has asked a multidisciplinary group of philosophers, education specialists, scientists, historians, theologians,...
Hispanic Serving Institutions Hit Hard by Pandemic
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) has issued a call-for-action for additional funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) that were forced to abruptly end or quickly...
Language Pathway 20 Million Years Older than Previously Thought
Neuroscientists have discovered that the human language pathway in the brain is at least 25 million years old, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20...
Apr. 23 is #EnglishLanguageDay
Every year on April 23, the United Nations (UN) leads the world in celebrating English Language Day. The result of a 2010 initiative by the Department of...