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At a time when global competence and cultural literacy are no longer optional in education, Delaware has taken a bold step forward. Through a visionary partnership between the Delaware Department of ...
Leigh Mingle, Daniel Velasco, and Conor Williams explain why the administration’s decision to cut funding for education research counters the goal of local control ...
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 ...
Walk into any classroom in the US, you’ll likely encounter students who speak a language other than English at home, who might have learned to read in another language before coming to school, or who ...
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey suggest strategies to help students engage with complex texts Fourth grader Mario sits at his desk, staring at the page he is supposed to be reading. His eyes are not ...
So many French words have been incorporated into English that we may not even realize that we are hearing French among the languages spoken around us. French is both a global and a local language, ...
During the past decade and especially the last few years, social emotional learning’s (SEL’s) reach has expanded significantly. It is known that high-quality SEL instruction can support students’ ...
A new study, “How User Language Affects Conflict Fatality Estimates in ChatGPT,” published in Journal of Peace, suggests that the language used to ask questions of large language models (LLMs) can ...
A new study carried out at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab offers a novel insight into the early acquisition of vocabulary—sentences contain subtle hints in their grammar that tell young children ...
Career exploration and exposure to real-world experiences are essential in today’s education for students in K–12 as they consider postsecondary and career opportunities after high school graduation.
Move reassures students, educators, and familiesMove reassures students, educators, and families The US administration said that it is restoring the previously terminated legal status of hundreds of ...
A recent study from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, which appears in Imaging Neuroscience, shows how interests can modulate language processing in children’s brains and paves the way for ...