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As part of the Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization initiative, Trudy Cardinal empowers young women to become their own researchers and storytellers.

The law requires certain districts to offer language and culture classes, but the report found districts would need to hire more than 150 teachers to reach compliance.

Kindergartner Josephine Ziniti sat at her teacher’s feet, hand held high, eager to answer a math question. And when her teacher, Jacqueline Gleason-Boure, moved to the floor, Josephine and her classmates closed in around her, eager to get her attention.

At UW’s Language Tables, students practice dozens of languages in a welcoming community outside of class.

According to a 2019 United States Census Bureau report, nearly one out of every five households in the United States spoke a language other than English at home — a considerable increase from what was nearly one out of ten households in 1980.  As the global market continues to expand and diversity along with it,…

The case for teaching Indonesian in Australian schools has never been stronger. Yet enrolments have rarely been lower. A group of educators, researchers, and policymakers recently sat down to ask […]

Last month, the advocacy group Californians Together launched Multilingual Education for All (MLE4ALL), a new statewide campaign designed to expand access to multilingual education and strengthen pathways to bilingualism and biliteracy for students across California. The Multilingual Education for All campaign is a long-term effort to ensure that multilingual education becomes a defining feature of California’s P–12 education system. Through policy advocacy, research, coalition-building, and public awareness, the campaign seeks to expand high-quality multilingual programs, including dual language programs, and ensure all students have the opportunity to develop bilingual and biliteracy skills. “California is one of the most linguistically diverse

The only problem: No one is fully fluent.