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- Language News July 12, 2017 American Councils Editorial Staff Dual Language Immersion Will Change Achievement in American Public Schools All students, no matter their native language, stand to benefit from dual language immersion programs.
- Language News February 14, 2017 By American Councils Editorial Staff On Capitol Hill for Language Advocacy Day: A Conversation with Dr. William P. Rivers Dr. Rivers, Executive Director of the Joint National Committee for Languages, on why foreign languages need advocacy.
- Language News December 19, 2016 American Councils Editorial Staff AAAS Commission on Language Learning Releases Preliminary Report on Languages The report, which includes research and analysis from Dr. Davidson and the American Councils research team, provides a statistical portrait of the nation's current language capacity.
- Language News December 18, 2016 Dr. Steven Byrd, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Latin American Studies Minor at the University of New England Languages as Cultural Ecosystems and Why Students Should Explore Them Dr. Steven Byrd, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New England shares why languages are far more than just tools of communication.
- Language News August 01, 2016 American Councils Editorial Staff Multilingualism as a Tool for Closing the Achievement Gaps Multilingualism is not the global exception in the world: it's the rule. In the United States, however, only about one-fourth of the population is meaningfully multilingual.
- Language News June 07, 2016 American Councils Editorial Staff Colleges Pledge To Send More Students Abroad Right now, only about 10 percent of Americans study in a foreign country during school.
- Language News June 02, 2016 American Councils Editorial Staff Webinar: The Impact of Dual Language Immersion The US Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition will hold a webinar on Tuesday, June 14 featuring research on dual language immersion.
- Language News May 02, 2016 American Councils Editorial Staff The AAAS Explores Increase in Two-Way Immersion Programs in May Data Forum Two-way language immersion programs (TWI) are increasingly embraced by educational systems across the country as a means of eliminating educational disparities.