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The Art of Writing?

It’s been a rough few years for elementary teaching and learning. Concerns remain about the progress (or lack thereof) that US students are making...

Weaving Feeling into Learning

Teaching students social–emotional skills like collaboration, communication, decision-making, and confidence sets them up for success in endless everyday scenarios. These skills especially help students...

Russian Schools Begin to Offer Swahili and Amharic

In Russia's capital Moscow, three schools have introduced the teaching of either Swahili or Amharic as a second foreign language this fall. According to Sputnik...

Campaign for Official Recognition of Catalan

The Catalan government has launched a Europe-wide PR campaign in the midst of negotiations to reform the list of official European Union (EU) languages....

Mandarin Learning Boom in Rwanda

As relations between China and many African countries strengthen, a Mandarin learning is booming all over the continent.  In Rwanda, Chinese languages are gaining prominence...

Latinos’ View of Spanish in the USA

Last month, the Pew Research Center released the...

Assessing Multilingual Learners’ Multiliteracies

"The notion of ‘multiliteracies’ describes the suite of essential skills students should possess in this globalized and digital age." Significance of Multiliteracies Today’s K–12 classrooms...

The North Star of Leadership

Despite one of the most brutal winter storms on record in Portland, Oregon, which stranded many on roads and airports, US secretary of education...

Universidad de Salamanca hosts Dia de las Lenguas Africanas

On October 20, the Faculty of Philology at the University of Salamanca in Spain is hosting Dia de las Lenguas Africanas, or the Day...

Mali drops French as an official language

In a constitutional change, Mali, the eighth-largest country in Africa, has dropped French—its official language since 1960. The new constitution is reported as having an...
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