Tag: language
House Committee Supports Funding for World Languages
Last month, the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of fiscal year 2025 Department of Defense (DoD) appropriations legislation, including $15 million for the...
Reading Legislation Update
OHIO The Ohio House Higher Education Committee recently started hosting testimony from educators and policy experts about the Science of Reading. “Explicitly teaching the...
Ontario Lawmaker Addresses Legislature in Anishininiimowin
A First Nations lawmaker in Ontario, Canada, has addressed the province’s legislature in Anishininiimowin, in a move that repudiates a centuries-long colonial “war” on...
China: Spanish for a New Approach to Globalization
Luis García Montero, director of the Instituto Cervantes, recently visited China to sign several academic agreements with the superpower’s educational organizations of the Asian...
Avengers Launches in Lakota
On June 14, Disney+ releases the Lakota-dubbed full-length version of the blockbuster Avengers movie, marking a milestone for Indigenous representation in mainstream media.
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US Spanish Fact-Checking Site Launches
Poynter’s PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize–winning fact-checking newsroom, has launched a new Spanish-language experience, PolitiFact en Español (www.politifact.com/espanol), to help more than 40 million Spanish...
Young Russians Learning Chinese
According to a report last month in China Daily, “The surge in demand for Chinese lessons in Russia reflects the nation’s shift toward the...
Online Arabic Learning Boom in Israel
Despite an immediate drop in registrations after the October 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel, demand for online Arabic learning programs in the country...
Report Endorses Early College Access for Mexican Americans
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute of Leadership, Equity, and Justice has released its latest report, “Reframing College: Mexican American Students, Higher Education, and Family...
