'Swedish is now our kids dominant language'
2012-05-29T14:54:51Z

Actually, if I look back, the change has been gradual, but I never really thought ... language growth? As an idealist new parent, my goal was lofty and vague: they should be bilingual. I should have known better. Personal experience as well as education ...

Fillmore district salutes achievers in language learning
2012-05-31T01:23:35Z

To be considered "fluent English proficient," students had to score at least the midpoint of basic for language arts on the California Standards ... "(The lesson) has to be well planned and well thought out." The district has about 1,200 English ...

Tribal student is as lucky as her name
2012-05-27T03:30:01Z

Reason being that she is the only from among hundreds of girl students of her troubled tribal region to get an opportunity to go overseas for education ... language skills. The girl said she could easily communicate in English and thought ...

Alabama School for Deaf student from Mobile to give salutatorian address
2012-05-29T19:34:01Z

"She grew up talking to her mother in sign language. She wanted to sign so her mother ... about me attending a deaf school," wrote Stallworth. "They thought that my education would not be the same." But, she wrote, she wanted her family to ...

Rwanda: L3 Opens Discussions On the New Numeracy Learning and Teaching
2012-05-31T07:14:21Z

In partnership with the Rwanda Education Board (REB), the Literacy, Language and Learning (L3 ... developmental process affects good curriculum and instructional materials design. According L3, the talk is a timely one, given REB's commitment of designing ...

Readers debate whether students need algebra 2 and a foreign language (poll)
2012-05-31T15:06:47Z

LANSING, MI Do all students need algebra 2 and a foreign language? And are career-technical classes just as rigorous, but in a different way? Readers sounded off after Wednesday s post about the state House Education Committee revisiting ...

Letters: Board makes bad decision on course
2012-05-18T07:51:14Z

I read one, The Body of Christopher Creed, and became deeply concerned with the bad language and recurring sexual references. I thought this must be the ... The Appleton Board of Education denied this request at its April 23 meeting.

Is Congress Getting Dumber?
2012-05-28T23:52:54Z

But the trend may not be indicative of a general dumbing-down of Congress, but on the unfortunate tendency to equate education (or displays ... comprised of simpler and less-thought-out language, because the ideas themselves are not thought ...

Plastic Language in Education
2012-05-22T04:33:13Z

As Poerksen notes, the language of education can often no longer be distinguished ... we see the outcome of this linguistic takeover all around us in the denaturing of serious thought and the destruction of healthy discourse.

A Message from the Next Generation of Digital Marketers We hear you loud and clear about Pandas, Penguins, and Privacy
2012-05-31T10:49:06Z

but I thought the students might relate easily to Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. So, I crafted a 25 slide PowerPoint presentation filled with stats, facts, visuals, graphs, etc. explaining how digital marketers use writing and language arts skills every ...