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06 Feb 12 - Education Languages News
African languages for schools
By Slindile Maluleka Compulsory teaching of African languages at schools is on the cards, with the Basic Education Department working on a policy that could be implemented next year.
Bilingual education falls flat for many students
California tried bi-lingual education. That mostly meant teaching kids in both English and Spanish. For the past 15 years, the state has used a program of English immersion classes.
Overall student performance dips in Gujarat, Bengal: Study
India's school education success story has a big bloomer -- overall student aptitude has fallen in four states, Gujarat, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Tripura.
Letters Supporting Elementary Foreign Language Instruction
Patch It was with great disappointment and dismay that I heard about the Board of Education's proposal to cut the elementary foreign language program in its latest budget negotiations. I will leave to others making the argument for why this program is ...
Educational eReader Review: ECTACO jetBook K-12 Educational eBook System
Now that they are older, we need to provide a dictionary in both English and their language of choice, a variety of reference books, a graphing calculator, and books that will help them do research and prepare for projects and SATs.
Kids get head-start on 'Asian century'
The extracurricular classes at Stanwell Park could soon be a thing of the past as the Federal Government pushes to give all primary school-aged children the chance to learn another language. Last year Schools Education Minister Peter Garrett announced ...
Advocates Come Forward for Hawaiian Language Assessment
Last year, Hawaiian Language Immersion schools boycotted the newly developed state test because they said it contained inaccuracies in the translation to Hawaiian.
Manila Ditches Bilingual Policy for Younger Pupils
Early learners are often taught in their community language as well as Filipino and English. The switch in June will begin with six-year-olds at Grade 1 in elementary education. The program will be expanded to seven- and eight-year-olds by mid-2015 in ...
Schools NEWS
... Modern Languages - Krystal Gonzalalez, Stefani Garcia and Magdalena Trusiewicz; Music/Choral - Jeffrey Leon, Stephanie Alatriste and Nina Binkowski; Music/Instrumental - Michelle Stephens, Sylwia Sokolowski and Amber White; Physical Education ...
Donald L. Gilleland: English should be U.S. national language; let's finally ...
According to The Phyllis Schlafly Report, the billion-dollar boondoggle called bilingual education has " always been a fraud because, contrary to the term bilingual, it doesn't teach two languages; instead it keeps immigrant children languishing in ...
East Timor to trial multilingual education
The Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education trial will see schools in three district teach children from pre-school age to grade three in a local language as well as in the official languages of Portuguese and Tetum. It's being introduced to try to ...
UK: Welcome to the university of the future
LEADING American academic and former Treasury secretary Larry Summers has a bold vision for how higher education needs to change in the high-tech age When Rhydian Emlyn-Williams went to Leeds University to study Chinese, he hoped it would set him on ...
A New Model: Schools as Ecosystems
We propose a fundamental shift in the framework and language we use to discuss educational reform. Instead of a framework that views students as products, we propose a framework in which the products of education are viewed as the contexts and content ...
It goes beyond a 'yes' or 'no'
The National Educational Testing Bureau of the University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts the National Eligibility Test (NET) to determine eligibility for lectureship and for award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for Indian nationals to ensure ...
Queensborough professor receives Fulbright scholarship
... where she is currently undertaking the role an instructor of English at the Tajikistan State Institution of Foreign Languages. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the US. government, ...
The AHA Exclusively Re-Endorses CyraCom's Language Solutions
The American Hospital Association has extened its endorsement of CyraCom's language interpretation and translation solutions.
KIE turns to educational broadcasting
By Fredrick Obura The Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) has finalised plans to run a 24/7 audio and visual TV channel programmes aimed at enriching classroom teaching.
Schools join forces to rescue languages
While responses to the plans have been optimistic, stakeholders remained concerned about the lack of quality language teachers and continuity of languages between primary and secondary schools. Education Minister Martin Dixon told The Sunday Age the ...
An Immigrant Student's Story: I Was a Dictionary Girl
"Finding ways to challenge students to build on their knowledge and language skills is a great way to help them learn new content and grasp academic skills.
Nashua high schools to continue with block scheduling next year
Nashua High Schools North and South will implement 45-minute “skinny” blocks, intended to ease concerns that some students have been going an entire year or semester without math or world language classes. Board of Education President Bob Hallowell was ...
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