Tag: 2008

January 2008

Vote for a Change As we enter 2008, there is a sense of optimism in the U.S despite ongoing international conflicts and gloomy economic...

February 2008

An Educational Stimulus It now seems inevitable that the U.S. economy will go into recession over the next year. Economic analysts will disagree about the...

March 2008

Redrawing the Political Langscape Now that the Republicans have chosen their Presidential candidate and the Democratic contest is reaching its climax, political analysts across...

April 2008

Entrepreneurial Educators As the specter of recession looms large in government accounting offices nationwide, and lawmakers, confronted with the “unexpected” prospect of diminishing tax revenues,...

May 2008

Reading All Formats Barely a week goes by without the release of a new report highlighting the growth of the literacy crisis in the U.S....

August 2008

Creating Global Classrooms As fuel prices inflate the cost of travel and concern for the environment increases, the ideal that everyone should have the opportunity...

September 2008

Going for Gold As the world’s most spectacular sporting event of all time draws to a close, the scale of the Beijing Olympics, and...

June 2008

Multicultural Education is No Luxury During difficult economic times, there is a general acceptance that education should endure budget cuts like all public services....

July 2008

A Trilingual America Barack Obama’s recent suggestion that “everybody should be bilingual...or trilingual” has been met with a barrage of criticism from conservative commentators...

November 2008

Greater Expectations In a recent commentary published online in Education Week (Give Latin a Chance, September 22, 2008), Baynard Woods, a public school teacher...
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