Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb are changing the mindset for educating multilingual learners Most education systems, ...

María Carreira recognizes the value of apps in making language learning more popular and teachers more effective There’s an old joke widely used among language teachers: What do you call someone who ...

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 ...

As the Brazilian economy booms, opportunities for Portuguese speakers abound, and picking it up may be easier than you think While many think of Rio or the jungles of the Amazon when they picture ...

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Maya Valencia Goodall sees speaking as the foundation for reading comprehension Speaking practice is the foundation for reading comprehension. When students routinely produce language—rehearsing ...

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 ...

K atie Novak explains why the implementation of universal design for learning (UDL) is best practice to increase engagement in all students In 1922, my grandmother moved from Trois-Rivières, a city in ...

Last year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of a milestone US Supreme Court ruling, Lau v. Nichols (1974), which set the groundwork for equitable learning opportunities for students designated at the ...

Social and emotional learning (SEL) can deepen education. In order for students to be academically, socially, and behaviorally successful in school and beyond, they need to develop skills in the five ...

Career and technical education, commonly referred to as career-tech ed or CTE, encompasses a wide array of industry-specific classes designed to enable high school students to explore career options ...