Tag: diversity

Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Boost Study Abroad

Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) have introduced the latest incarnation of the bipartisan Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act....

America Becoming More Multilingual

According to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) of newly...

Americans Support Public Education in Diverse Schools

Despite influential campaigns to undermine  confidence in public schools, most Americans have faith in their local schools, according to the latest edition of the...

Speaking of the Ice Age

University of Virginia linguistic anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli and colleagues are applying the latest technology to an ancient mystery: how and when early humans...

Dual-language Programs Improve Reading Skills

According to a recent study, the first of its kind and scale, students enrolled in dual-language immersions programs, in which students are taught in both...

Africa’s Linguistic Diversity

The African continent is home to one third of the world's 6,000 languages, but less than one seventh of the world's population. Europe, which...

A Call For Diversity in Mobile App Languages

The mobile app market reached over 1.3 million available applications in July of 2014 and continues to be a booming business medium. Still greatly...

Managing Diversity

Anne Scatchell argues that administrators need specific training to successfully manage culturally diverse classrooms “I know that I don’t have a background in working with...

Celebrate Spain’s Cultural Diversity

There’s never been a better time to take that much-anticipated study trip to Spain The economy is on the rebound, so there’s optimism but prices...

Spanish Diversity

South America offers an array of immersion destinations to befit a continent of the future The common language to more than 20 countries (in the...
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