Taiwan Education Initiative as a primary model for expanding Mandarin teaching Students love Taiwan's Fengjia night market. A ...

Supporting young children’s language and literacy development has long been considered a practice that yields strong readers and writers later in life. The results of the National Early Literacy Panel ...

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 ...

Language always carries meanings and references beyond itself: The meanings of a particular language represent the culture of a particular social group. To interact with a language means to do so with ...

Contrary to popular opinion, there is no evidence that teenagers are less engaged in literacy activities today than teenagers of the past. Teenagers today do just as much book reading as teenagers did ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Education has announced $256 million in new Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grants to improve literacy nationwide. These grants are ...

As fall arrives, students are returning to school, we hope, with a renewed enthusiasm for learning. As teachers prepare for the first day of school, they may have reviewed the class roster and ...

Bilingual educators often serve as a bridge for students navigating two worlds academically, linguistically,and culturally. But the demands placed on these educators continue to grow.Many are tasked ...

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 ...