Tuesday, July 7 will mark the fifth commemoration of World Kiswahili Language Day. Kiswahili is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa and the world. With over 200 million speakers, ...

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 ...

There couldn’t be a better time for the new book Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall: Essential Shifts for Dual Language Success (Corwin Press) to be published and shared through a special series of ...

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 ...

Study highlights national implications for teaching reading as New York educators report gaps in preparation, uneven curriculum adoption, and high demand for professional learning A statewide survey ...

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 ...

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 ability to map letters to sounds is considered an important indicator of early literacy skills. Previous research shows that letter sound mappings in kindergarten is strongly associated with later ...

During the past decade, interpreter and translator services have soared across public and public charter schools in the US. A primary reason for this dramatic increase is the “Dear Colleague” letter ...

The body of research known as science of reading (SoR) is widely acknowledged among experts as both theoretically and empirically superior to other conceptions of literacy development (Rayner et al., ...

Throughout IDRA’s almost five decades, we have paid close attention to how we speak about people in terms of race or ethnicity, gender, etc. Words matter. Almost 5 million students in U.S. public ...

Now that Bulgaria is a full member of the European Union, expect to see its economy boom. Photographs by Athina Kontos Bulgarian is spoken by 5.4 million people in Bulgaria, or 77% of the population ...