Learning a language can open a lot of doors for students, but the door opens much wider when paired with an understanding of global events and how to affect the…
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Tag Archives: Education
5 Resources to Enhance the K-12 Lifelong Learning Journey
To complement our new Lifelong Learning: Language Skills Increase World Readiness eBook, we’ve also established a page that gathers the best resources we have found on the benefits of language…
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[New eBook] Lifelong Learning: Language Skills Increase World Readiness
We’re excited to bring you this new e-book, all about the role language skills play in the future success of our K-12 students. It’s called Lifelong Learning: Language Skills Increase World…
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The Finding Funding Checklist for Language Learning
Although we’ve seen a few years of economic growth and rising property values, education funding from state and federal sources continues to lag behind. Part of this is because of…
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Public Funding Sources for Language-Learning
Our latest infographic, Funding Sources for Language Learning, goes through the updated state of governmental education funding in the United States. One of the lowlights: Congress has cut education funding…
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Private Sources for Language-Learning Dollars
Even though the economy has rebounded and tax rolls are starting to grow again, education funding is still being held to pre-Recession levels. Nationwide, per-pupil spending has decreased three years…
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[Infographic] Funding Sources for Language Learning
The country’s schools are now majority-minority and one third of students are expected to be considered English learners by 2020, while only 18% of K-12 students study a foreign language…
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The Skill Graduates Need Most
The results of a recent survey capturing the skills employers want most out of their new hires may surprise you. Instead of writing, visual, or electronic communication skills, employers identified…
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[NEW eBook] Expanding Access for Adult English Learners
In the past 20 years, the adult Limited English Proficient population increased over 80 percent. That has led to English language-learning becoming the largest subgroup of the adult education landscape.…
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[Special Report] Language Acquisition Demand on the Rise in Adult Education
By 2030, nearly one in five members of the workforce will be an immigrant. That equates to increased strain on language learning classes at all levels of education, but particularly…
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