United States Needs To Significantly Increase Access To Language Learning To Remain Competitive

PR News Wire - Staff Writer "The American Academy of [...]

February 28th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Language Study as a National Imperative

Inside Higher Ed - Colleen Flaherty "A major 2013 report [...]

February 28th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Global Competence, Global Economy, Global Workforce, Globalized World, language and academic achievement, Language Arts, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Multilingual education is ‘absolutely essential,’ UNESCO chief says on Mother Language Day

The United Nations News - Staff Writer "Learning languages is [...]

February 22nd, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, biliteracy, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Global Citizenship, Globalized World, International, Language, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Spark an Interest in Spanish With Books

Geek Dad - Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley "I love to sprinkle [...]

February 19th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, biliteracy, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Languages, Learning, News, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Learning Chinese. Here’s Why You Should, Too

INC - Glenn Leibowitz "I've been following Mark Zuckerberg's path [...]

February 17th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Beijing, Bicultural, Bilingual, Brain development and Language, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, China, Chinese, Culture, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, Languages, Learning, Mandarin, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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How Not to Teach Chinese

The Chronicle of Higher Education - Geoffrey Pullum "Victor Mair [...]

February 15th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Chinese, Chinese students, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, Language Arts, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, Mandarin, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Marin Voice: The case for bilingual education — why not Mandarin Chinese?

The Marin Independent Journal - Jie Zheng "Dual-language immersion is [...]

February 13th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Brain development and Language, California, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Arts, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Naptime could have beneficial effect on language learning in preschool-age children

News Medical Life Sciences - Staff Writer "Research has shown [...]

February 11th, 2017|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Early Education, Education, Foreign Language, Language, Languages, Learning, News, Parenting, Parents, Preschool, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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5 Proven Benefits of Learning a New Language

Travel and Leisure - Richelle Szypulski "Learning to speak a [...]

February 5th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Brain development and Language, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Indifference toward Foreign Languages Could Cost Americans

Good Call - Marisa Sanfilippo "Census Bureau data represent the [...]

February 3rd, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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