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Acting UP

When I signed up for an improv theater...

California Bill to Battle Bilingual Teacher Shortage

Working to support bilingual students in one of...

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...

Cambridge to Install Indigenous Street Signs

Cambridge Massachusetts, home to Harvard University, , is erecting signs displaying street names in the native language of the Massachusett Tribe are going up....

Weaving Feeling into Learning

Teaching students social–emotional skills like collaboration, communication, decision-making,...

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...
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