Tag: language
Declaring Literacy as a Fundamental and Global Civil Right
For decades, educators and parents have been fighting illiteracy. Research indicates that 95% of children can learn how to read with evidence-based instruction. However,...
Spain’s Queen Celebrates Spanish Growth in US
Spain’s Queen Letizia was in Los Angeles last month, not only to inaugurate the West Coast’s first branch of the Cervantes Institute but also...
Florida Bans African American Studies Course
Florida government officials have forbidden the introduction of a new advanced-level high school course that would teach African-American history and literature.
The decision made under...
Bill Would Extend Pell Grant by Four Semesters
Reps. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) have introduced the Pell to Grad Act. The Pell to Grad Act will increase lifetime Pell...
Maine Preserves French Heritage Via Newspapers
The Maine State library is seeking French-language newspapers in an effort to digitally preserve the culture of the state’s Franco-American community.
The project was inspired...
Canada Settles Cultural and Linguistic ‘Genocide’ Suit
Canada has agreed to pay out C$2.8bn ($2.09bn) to settle a decade-long lawsuit seeking reparations for the loss of language and indigenous culture caused...
Campaign Seeks to Silence Indigenous Voice in Australian Parliament
An Australian group has launched a campaign against a scheduled referendum to allow Indigenous Australians a voice in parliament, claiming it would not fully...
AI Can Strengthen Student Writing, Not Weaken It
ChatGPT, a revolutionary chatbot technology, is sparking controversy,...
Swedish AI Models Preserve 500 Years of History
The National Library of Sweden is harnessing AI technology developed by NVIDIA to preserve almost half a millennium of literature in digital form.
The library,...
Genes and Languages Don’t Always Sync
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) has been investigating if language...
