The Huffington Post – CHRISTINE ARMARIO
“Duna’s success is exceptional, but the language challenge she faced is increasingly common across the U.S. educational map. Nationwide, nonwhites are expected to become a majority of the population within a generation, and schools are at the cutting edge of that historic shift.”(more)
Education Next – Elise Hahl
“Sloppy English usage may seem like a modern problem, but the laxness that has led to this moment in grammar’s history bears a strong resemblance to the atmosphere in early-18thcentury England.”(more)
The Los Angeles Times – Teresa Watanabe
“More than 20,000 California students struggling with English are not receiving legally required services to help them, setting them up for academic failure, says a report by two civil rights groups.”(more)
The Chronicle – Audrey Williams June
“For the first time in almost 20 years, there are likely to be more full-time jobs in 2012-13 for foreign-language scholars than for people with Ph.D.’s in English, according to the Modern Language Association…the expected growth in foreign-language jobs suggests that colleges “recognize the importance of multilingualism in students’ education.”(more)
Education Week – Erik W. Robelen
“As educators nationwide seek to help students meet the demands of the common core in English/language arts and mathematics, many arts education advocates are making the case that the arts can be a valuable partner. And in some cases, they’re identifying ways to make the links explicit.”(more)
The Huffington Post – Ben Wieder
“Kentucky is the first state to tie its tests to the new national Common Core standards in English and math, and state officials had projected that the new, tougher standards could yield declines of as much as 50 percent.”(more)
The Christian Science Monitor – Amanda Paulson
“Two international studies show fourth- and eighth-grade scores in math, science, and reading in 2011. In the US, there’s no cause for alarm, or celebration.”(more)
The Guardian – Peter Walker
“English schools receive a mixed assessment in trio of vast studies involving hundreds of thousands of students worldwide.”(more)
The Sydney Morning Herald – Josephine Tovey
“AUSTRALIAN schoolchildren’s results in maths and science have flat-lined over two decades, while their reading ability is lagging many developed nations, including the United States, England and Canada, new reports show.”(more)
The Huffington Post – Staff Writer
“Concern is growing among teachers and parents that literary classics will go the way of the dinosaurs under a set of new national curricular standards.”(more)
