Tag: language
Los Angeles Gives Extra $700M to Schools Most in Need
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board has voted 6-1 to distribute an additional $700 million in the 2021-22 academic year to schools...
Call for Sweden to Recognize Elfdalian
A Swedish parliamentary representative is calling for action to preserve an extremely vulnerable language spoken in Sweden’s forested countryside: Elfdalian (älvdalska in Swedish and...
Help Fund World Language Education
Funding for the World Language Advancement and Readiness Act (WLARA) Grants Program is critical. Reach out to your Senators and ask them to sign...
‘Iconic’ Sounds May Be Missing Link to Language
The missing link that helped our ancestors to begin...
Indigenous Language Institute to Host Webinar Series
The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) has announced that it will be hosting a webinar series to support its language communities while COVID restrictions are...
Applications for 2021 ALAS Scholarship Award due Sept. 30
The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS), in partnership with Curriculum Associates, is now accepting applications for its 2021 ALAS Scholarship Award. Applications...
Summer Learning to Help Students Most Impacted by the Pandemic
At the end of April, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) launched the Summer Learning & Enrichment Collaborative, providing support to 46 states, the...
“Who You Be?”: Welcoming in the Language of Critical Love
(May 2021) Shekema S. Dunlap, Millicent Carmouche, and Natasha Thornton share the power of being in African American language
Call to Make Portuguese Official Language of UN
Ahead of the celebration of Portuguese Language Day on May 5, Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, said that Portugal is continuing...
U.S. Guide to Exemplary Language Programs Wins $500K Grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to support the efforts of the America’s Languages Working Group in building the Guide...
