Are there real benefits to being bilingual?

Medical Xpress - Melissa Beattie-Moss "There's an old joke that [...]

June 14th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Bilingual, Brain development, Brain development and Language, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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The Reinvention of Bilingual Education in America’s Schools

Slate - Sarah Carr "One afternoon last fall, I watched [...]

June 14th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Bicultural, Bilingual, Brain development and Language, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, News, School, School District, Spanish, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Language immersion schools flourish in D.C.

Education Watch Dog - Moriah Costa "Snippets of French, Mandarin, [...]

June 13th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Bilingual, Brain development and Language, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.), Washington, D.C.|Tags: Education, schools|

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How Growing Up in Poverty Rewires a Child’s Developing Brain

Good - Kayt Sukel "Decades of scientific research have suggested [...]

June 12th, 2015|Categories: Brain, Brain development, Brain development and Language, Learning, Low Income, Poverty, Reading|Tags: Education, School|

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Probing Question: Are there real benefits to being bilingual?

Penn State News - Melissa Beattie-Moss "Does the U.S. deserve [...]

June 11th, 2015|Categories: Bilingual, Brain, Brain development, Brain development and Language, Dual-language, Foreign Language, Language Immersion, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, School|

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“Grammaring”: The Fifth Skill In Language Teaching and Learning

Morocco World News - Mohamed Benhima "Language teaching and learning [...]

June 9th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Bilingual, biliteracy, Brain development and Language, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign, Foreign Language, Grammar, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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What the Seal of Biliteracy Can Do for English Language Learners

Ed Central - Staff Writer "A growing body of research [...]

June 6th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Brain development and Language, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Diploma, Education, Foreign Language, Graduates, Language, language and academic achievement, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Bilingual children are likely to be more empathetic, better communicators

The Independent - Evan Bartlett "Children who are exposed to [...]

June 4th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, biliteracy, Brain development and Language, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Communication, Current Events, Education, Emotional Literacy, Empathy, Foreign, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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LEARNING A THIRD LANGUAGE

The Daily Star - ARUBA ADIL & ADIT HASAN " [...]

June 4th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Brain development and Language, Career & Technical Training, Childhood Education, Children, College and Career Readiness, College/University, Current Events, Education, Foreign, Foreign Language, French, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, Mandarin, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Words + Pictures

The Language Magazine - Lina Sun "The recent introduction of [...]

June 4th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Bicultural, Bilingual, biliteracy, Brain development, Brain development and Language, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, Literacy, News, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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