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Jaumont’s book stands on the edge of the nascent bilingual revolution running through the United States’ school system and asks how it might be improved and encouraged. Jaumont describes the country’s growing enthusiasm for multilingual education – and provides a roadmap for communities who want to join the movement.
Jaumont’s book stands on the edge of the nascent bilingual revolution running through the United States’ school system and asks how it might be improved and encouraged. Jaumont describes the country’s growing enthusiasm for multilingual education – and provides a roadmap for communities who want to join the movement. Conor Williams, PhD Senior Researcher New … Continue reading Conor Williams, DLL National Work Group, endorses The Bilingual Revolution: The Future of Education is in Two Languages
Robert Nolan, executive director of communications and content strategy at Carnegie Corporation of New York, reviewed my book Unequal Partners: American Foundations and Higher Education Development in Africa for Carnegie Reporter. Continue reading “Unequal Partners reviewed by Robert Nolan for Carnegie Reporter”
Today I visisted The Language and Laughter Studio founded by Pascale Setbon in 2005. The Language and Laughter Studio is a bilingual pre-school in the heart of downtown Brooklyn. They are pioneers in bilingual education! The believe in progressive language education that is centered in arts integration, imagination, child-driven projects, and play based learning!
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I met with entrepreneur Vanessa Handal-Ghenania who founded Petits Poussins too, a bilingual preschool in French and English in Harlem. Vanessa opened her first school in Harlem six years ago and is now working towards opening her fourth school, with Spanish this time. Her schools accept children six weeks old to four years old and expose them to languages all day long!
We often forget that school is a gift. The story of these four children will make you appreciate this fact. It will also touch your heart. Here is why you should watch ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL. Below, I have also listed several activities for the classroom and for home, as well as theaters where you can catch the movie.
ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL features 4 children who live in different corners of the world, but who share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a better future and that is why every day, they must set out on the long and perilous journey that will lead them to knowledge. Continue reading “Documentary On the Way to School”
A rejuvenating tour of La Petite Ecole, a bilingual + arts preschool founded by Virgil de Voldere seven years ago, and now on three sites in New York with perhaps more to come. Start them young! Bilingualism is a gift for life, a gift that keeps on giving! And so are the arts. @lapetiteecolenyc
I have been interviewed by Diana Limongi for MomsRising. I offer insight on dual language program creation in New York City. Continue reading “Interview for MomsRising: Dual Language Creation in NYC”
I co-wrote a chapter in the newly issued Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education with Jane Ross and Benoît Le Dévédec: Institutionalization of French Heritage language Education in U.S. School Systems, the French Heritage language Program. Continue reading “Institutionalization of French Heritage language Education in U.S. School Systems: the French Heritage language Program in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education”
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