Educators (from left) Associate Professor Karen Lillie, Professor Kate Mahoney and alumna Natalie DuBois. College of Education Professor Kate Mahoney and Associate Professor Karen Lillie collaborated with Natalie DuBois, who earned a M.S.Ed. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at SUNY Fredonia in 2021, and professors from other universities to conduct a large-scale quantitative research study that evaluated the level of success of Arizona’s anti-bilingual education Proposition 203. The study, “Castañeda’s Third Prong Redux: The Achievement of Arizona’s English Language Learners after Proposition 203,” assessed the impacts of Proposition 203 over a 12-year period to see whether…
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By Christie Vogt Buoyed by a recent $1,500 grant from the St. Anthony Park Community Foundation, the Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute is expanding its children’s literacy program. Planting People was chosen in the Foundation’s education and youth category with its funding going to support the Institute’s Leaders are Readers program, according Julie Drechsler, executive director of the SAP Community Foundation, which this spring also awarded grants to 15 other local nonprofits and community groups totaling about $30,000, Artika Tyner, executive director of Planting People, founded her organization in 2017 to promote literacy and diversity through books. The goal…
Mad Libs and Weird Al: A Match Made in Parody HeavenPenguin Young Readers’ Mad Libs brand is pairing with The Roku Channel and its upcoming Roku Original film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, for a collection of three downloadable Weird Al stories (link will be live on September 30) and a sweepstakes. Both launch September 30, in advance of the November 4 premiere of the parody biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe.Both brands focus on over-the-top fun and silly spoofs based on existing materials. “In our initial call with them, it just seemed to all of us that Mad Libs and Weird…
Book review by Commander Trish Beckman, US Navy (retired), Naval Flight Officer (Navigator) Book cover “Taking Flight with Captain Mama/Despegando con Capitán Mamá” -ISBN: 978-0-9973090-2-7 (hardcover), 978-0-9973090-9-6 (paperback), 979-8-9856862-0-3 (eBook) How it started – UNT graduation day at Mather Field and How it’s going – the author and book trilogy inspired by her service and kids Graciela Tiscareño-Sato, aka Captain Mama, will showcase her bilingual book trilogy on the flightline at the California Capital Airshow October 1-2 Graciela’s adventurous storytelling, Linda’s engaging illustrations, Kiyoshi’s origami activity, meld together to lead you on a lasting journey with ideas that extend far…
RENOVATED & READY. The new youth section at the recently renovated L.E. Phillips Memorial Library is innovative for both play and comfort. The L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library was a true community hub pre-renovation, already providing lots of programs and services. Now with its expansion and renovations complete, the library is able to do even more, comfortably, in the new space. With the youth section taking up a significant portion of the first floor, there’s more space for growth in book inventory as well as the play and learning section for children. “With the play and learn section we have…
Two-day Makkala Dasara inaugurated; platform for children to showcase their talents Two-day Makkala Dasara inaugurated; platform for children to showcase their talents It’s time for the children’s merriment as Children’s Dasara (Makkala Dasara) got off to a grand start at Jaganmohan Palace auditorium here on Thursday.Minister for Primary and Secondary Education B. .C Nagesh inaugurated the two-day event and said “The event has given a platform for the children to showcase their talents. Every child will get a chance to do so.”Child prodigy Vamshika Anjani Kashyap, who became a sensation after her extraordinary performance in a TV reality show, was…
Princeton University celebrated Constitution Day in mid-September with an event featuring a panel of academics who spent 90 minutes deriding the country’s founding document as “a tool of geopolitical gaslighting” that “furthers a racial crisis and a democratic crisis.” The event, titled “Citizenship and Its Discontents in Our Evolving Democratic Republic,” was billed as “a public occasion to consider the Constitution and its lived implications throughout United States history”—almost all of which, according to the panelists assembled, have been negative. “There is a debate in this country as to whether the Constitution should be abolished,” said sociology professor Patricia Fernández-Kelly,…
As poet and writer Bao Phi searched for picture books seven years ago that would show a mosaic of different types of people, he ran into a problem. Selections were limited. “Me and my partner at the time wanted our kid to be exposed to different types of folks — Black, Indian, Arab, queer, everything — so that their worldview could be as large as possible,” Phi said. Not having found such a book, he decided to write his own story. And “A Different Pond” was born. Now, his inaugural children’s book about a father and son bonding over fishing…
Ashlee Kennedy State Farm will host the third annual Hero Night Festival on October 4, where police and fire departments come together for a night filled with entertainment and activities centered around our local superheroes. Ashlee Kennedy State Farm has teamed up with the Fort Mitchell Police and Fire departments, Villa Hills Police Department, Lakeside Park/Crestview Hills Police, and Crescent Springs/Villa Hills fire Department to put on this free event from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Diocesan Catholic Children’s Home Festival Grounds. The festival will feature booths where attendees can play games and other entertaining activities. All proceeds…
NEWS | FEATURES | PREVIEWS | EVENTS originally published: 09/29/2022 (SUMMIT, NJ) — The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) recently awarded the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (VACNJ) a $50,760 Museums for America grant to partner with the Elizabeth Public School system and Cultures and Literacies Through Art for the 21st Century (CALTA21). This grant will enable the expansion of the CALTA21 curriculum for 9th- and 10th-grade social studies students in bilingual classrooms. The program will design a curriculum that meets New Jersey Student Learning Standards for New Jersey’s Amistad Law. The Amistad Law calls public schools to…