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Addressing language barrier in early grade learning

Nepal, June 13 -- Children learn best when education starts from the language they already know. For many children in Nepal, ...
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In today’s world, multilingual contexts are the norm rather than the exception. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Atlas of Languages reveals that ...
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Nina Greenwood is a passionate educator, founder and CEO of Happy Plum Language Learning, an Ed-Tech startup based out of Harvard i-lab. As the CEO and founder of an innovative edtech startup, I’ve ...
I have shared many columns about how teachers might want to consider—and how they might not want to consider—using artificial intelligence in the classroom. You can see many of those previous posts ...
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Many AI systems answer questions in a matter of seconds—and, in the process, often prevent people from doing exactly what ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best instructional strategies and lessons to use when teaching intermediate English-language learners? The English-language-learner population is growing ...