Although China boasts a history of over 5,000 years, the modern nation-state we know today is only about 65 years old. Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People’s ...

Literacy is the right of every child, and our target must be literacy rates of 100%. However, how best to realize that goal continues to be debated by districts across the country, giving states good ...

The following is a list of literacy PD providers that submitted programs for review, along with the program names listed on their applications. Provider Program Name 95 Percent Group Limited Liability ...

Merriam-Webster defines duende as “the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm,” but to flamenco aficionados it means so much more. Music, culture, and language are inexorably ...

For the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau has compiled four years of data to see how many speakers of North American Native languages reside in the U.S., where they live across the country, and what ...

One day at recess, a distraught five-year-old approached me and proclaimed angrily, “Fulanito me tagó.” Confused, I attempted to understand her meaning: “¿Te tocó?” (“He touched you?”) She shook her ...

The work of the last 40 years is the result of a war between two very different views about how we acquire language and develop literacy. The comprehension hypothesis says that we acquire language ...

Alexandra Güílamo suggests how dual language program leaders can best integrate science of reading legislation Literacy is the right of every child, and our target ...

The American educational system has a difficult time understanding dyslexia and an even harder time identifying children with dyslexia in order to provide the correct intervention for students who are ...

According to the newly-released Cervantes Institute’s 2022 yearbook Spanish in the World, the number of native Spanish speakers has risen to nearly 500 million (496.5 million—up about three million ...

Linguistic diversity among our multilingual students in grades pre-K–12 has been steadily increasing over the last 15 years, and with changing classroom dynamics, we need strong, intentional ...

With the advent of ChatGPT, Google Bard, Midjourney and Canva’s magic features, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming an integral part of our everyday lives, transforming industries and ...