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 ...

While we are likely to think of film, food, fashion, and perhaps fiction when we think of French, we’d do well to add both fun and family. On the one hand, we may enjoy Paris Fashion Week and the new ...

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

Created by New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, DailySpark is an innovative 30-day digital learning experience designed to help educators integrate professional ...

Higher education has long been one of the clearest pathways to opportunity. A degree signals readiness for the workforce, reflecting subject-matter knowledge, critical thinking, and the ability to ...

Despite the administration’s arguments to the contrary, ensuring that multilingual learners (MLs) are central to the success of national literacy efforts may become more difficult now that the ...

The many components of a successful English as a second language (ESL) program became apparent to me watching students thrive in a neighborhood public... My decade-long involvement in shadowing ...