Bilingual Education

Puerto Rico Aims To Become Fully Bilingual By 2022

AP | DANICA COTO | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, Video, Bilingual Education, Education in Puerto Rico, Bilingualism, Luis Fortuno Puerto Rico, Latino Prosperity, Luis Fortuno, Puerto Rico English Public Schools, Latino Voices News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: make P...

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Conditions Are Perfect For Bilingual Education - So Why Is It In Decline?

Stephen Palacios | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Nationalism, Alzheimer's Disease, Immigration Reform, Global Economy, Bilingual, Bilingual Education, Immigration, Alzheimer's, Bilingualism, Latino Voices News

The global economy benefits from a labor force that can transact business in more than one language, which would seem to reinforce the need for bilingual education. While English is the lingua franca of today's global economy, it is hard to argue that knowing another language is a disadvantage in today's (or tomorrow's) market.

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Student Punished For Using Native Tongue, Receives Apology From School, Diocese

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Bilingual Students, Bilingual, School Apologizes, School Apology, Bilingual Education, School Issues Apology, Second Languages at School, Education News

The Sacred Heart Catholic School and the Diocese of Green Bay are issuing apologies to 12-year-old Miranda Washinawatok of Wisconsin. The teen was bar...

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What I Owe Margarita Muñiz

Meg Campbell | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Smith College, Bilingual Education, Dual-Language-School, Boston University, Boston Public Schools, Wellesley College, Ron Edmonds, Effective Schools, Wheelock College, Harvard College, Education News

My children's education is just one debt I owe this remarkable educator.

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Kill Your Television - The Downside of Technology

Steve Nelson | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Online Learning, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education, Computers in School, Brain Research, Education News

Learning is primarily a social activity, best nurtured through and among relationships. The rote, unimaginative practices that characterize much of today's approach to learning are deeply flawed.

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To Speak Or Not To Speak.. Spanish

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Latino Politics, English, Hispanic Heritage, English Only, Bilingual, Spanish, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English Language, Video, Latino Voices News

Does speaking English and Spanish fluently make you less American? Is bilingualism a hindrance to the American dream? As the nation’s Latino pop...

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English Learners Far Behind Under English-Only Methods

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.25.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. BALDWIN PARK, Calif. –- The end of the school day in Patty Sanchez’s kindergarten cl...

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Vistas: Bilingually Speaking About Latino Culture

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Video, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Speaking English, Vistas, Hispanic Heritage Month, Speaking-Spanish, Latino Voices News

There are some who argue as to the fundamental need for speaking Spanish in order to maintain a strong connection to the shared, root elements of Lati...

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Clearing Up Common Myths About What It Means to Be Bilingual

Nataly Kelly | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Foreign Language, Education, Bilingual Education, Language Learning, Bilingualism, Hispanic Heritage Month, Education News

"One can become bilingual at any time during one's life -- as a child, as an adolescent, or as an adult. There is no upper age limit for acquiring a new language and then continuing one's life with two or more languages."

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Kids From Bilingual Households More Flexible Thinkers, Research Shows

| Patricia Kuhl | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Flexible Thinking, Video, Early Education, Bilingual Families, Education Nation, Early Childhood Learning, Infant Learning, University of Washington, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Babies, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation's The Learning Curve blog. Patricia Kuhl, professor of early childhood learning and a co-director ...

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Valuing Both Breadth and Depth in Language Education

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, Bilingual Education, Language, Education, Education Reform, Children, Spanglish, Education News

An Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, Ramón Martinez studied the ways sixth grade students combined English and Spanish in everyday conversation. Then he asked them why they did so.

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Bilingual Youth: Language Demands of a Globalized Future

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Latinos, Immigration, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Education News

Who is more limited -- those who are growing up with two languages, both in formation, or those who only have access to one code? Many English Learners serve as "language brokers" for their families -- as well as for their teachers.

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Sharing my Voice

Eduardo Xol | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Learning English, Cultura, Bilingual Education, Spanish Language, Multiculturalism, Latino Voices News

It seems that the mainstream U.S. population doesn't understand the value of speaking another language.

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Adventure, Fun and the Value of Studying Spanish Along the Pan-American Highway

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Traveling in Central America, Traveling With Children, Spanish Immersion Program, Foreign Language Learning, Bilingual Education, Second Languages, Spanish Language Learning, Travel News

A short tour of Central America -- Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama -- was a great opportunity to teach our girls how to travel with the added bonus of daily Spanish language use.

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More U.S. Students Learning Chinese As School Language Programs Expand

Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Chinese Language, Trilingual Education, Bilingual Education, Chinese Lessons, Chinese Education, Broadway Elementary, Education News

By Alex Dobuzinskis In Mandarin immersion teacher Kennis Wong's kindergarten class, her young pupils are making paper masks glued to sticks that the...

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Stop the Madness! Call Your Members of Congress Today

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Budget Vote, Raising Global Children, Go Global, Foreign Language, Get Ahead by Going Abroad, Stacie Berdan, Bilingual Education, Flap, Education News

More people in the world are bilingual than monolingual -- except in the United States. Something's wrong with this picture.

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A Little More Tongue

Meredith Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Spanish Language, Spanish, Argentina, Bilingual Education, Travel, Buenos Aires, Learning, World News

How many people in the world could we meet -- potential friends, lovers, spouses, professors, if we were able to truly communicate?

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Multiculturalism

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Religion and Politics, Bilingual Education, India, World, Multiculturalism, World News

Maybe if the United States embraces India's multicultural philosophy it can prevent antagonizing other nations while dissuading our political adolescents from pursuing global prepubescent mishaps.

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Senator Kennedy Made Me Do This

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bilingual Education, S-Chip, Children, Ryan White, Immigration, Ted Kennedy, HIV/AIDS, Senator Hatch, Health Care, Americorps, CARE Act, Massachusetts, Poverty, Minimum Wage, Healthcare, Politics News

Kennedy's career was marked by a decades-long commitment to help those with the least political power - the poor, children, immigrants, and the uninsured.

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Newt Gingrich Starts Twittering In "Ghetto" Spanish

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich is notorious for his active -- and sometimes controversial -- musings on Twitter. But not only does he h...

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Mentoring Sonia: The Case of Celina Sotomayor

Virginia Sanchez-Korrol | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Celina Sotomayor, Antonia Pantoja, Puerto Rican, New York, Sonia Sotomayor, West Side Story, Gender Stereotypes, Nuyorican, Garment Industry, Boricua, Aspira, Bilingual Education, New York News

For more than sixty years Celina Sotomayor's life experience has reflected the evolution of the New York Puerto Rican community. As witness and participant, she puts a face on thousands of migrants like her, who braved dislocation, discrimination and disillusionment for a better life. Shattering ethno-racial and gender stereotypes, hers is a story of family, survival, and perseverance much like that of her compatriots with one distinct difference. Her daughter is President Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Nuyorican to be so honored.

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Election 2008 Odds and Ends -- Waiting for Missouri and Alaska, Pro-Marijuana Initiatives and More...

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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We have had a virtual news blackout on what is going on in the two states we're waiting for -- Missouri's presidential results, and Alaska's senatorial results. Here is what I managed to find out.

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