State School Superintendent Chris Reykdal wants all K-8 schools to offer dual language programs by 2040. MOUNT VERNON, Wash — A Mount Vernon elementary school is modeling what Washington’s Superintendent of Public Instruction wants for the entire education system by 2040: bilingual education. It’s a new school year and a new language for a lot of the kids at Mount Vernon’s Madison Elementary. The school has been fully bilingual since 2019. Parents choose to send their kids there for that very reason. Everything is done in both English and Spanish. Fifth grader Olivia Ruiz says it helps bring kids together.…
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Thirty-five years after her arrival at Virginia Tech, kicking off her legacy of educating college students, Nikki Giovanni is hanging up her hat as an English professor, but the 79-year-old has no plans of slowing down.The Knoxville native, literary icon, and civil rights fighter is ready to focus on writing books about her childhood, which fans have grown to love.“It was time. I’m an old woman now, and I hear if you don’t retire, they’ll fire you,” she joked.But retirement doesn’t stand in the way of her connection to the thousands of young adults she has taught over the years.”I will always…
DuPage Children’s Museum worked in partnership with the Center for Success to deliver Wonder Clubs, exceptional arts, and STEM programming designed to inspire students to wonder about the world around them and generate solutions to authentic problems. The Center for Success empowers both pre-service college students in education and prekindergarten to 12th-grade students enrolled in high-need schools in Chicago and Aurora with experiential education that provides access, resources, and opportunities. This summer, the Center for Success hosted camp for their Junior/Senior Scholars at the museum. “DCM’s role in the scholars program illustrates how our museum is working proactively to build…
Pacifica closed the Sakura ICF and evicted all of the residents, with plans to build market-rate apartments on the site. Save Our Seniors Network (SOSN) is sponsoring an event to present a panel of the families who testified to James Toma, California state special assistant attorney general. They will be sharing their experiences at a community meeting on Sunday, Sept. 18, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Rissho Kosei-kai Buddhist Church, 2707 First St. in Boyle Heights. The program will also include the following presenters: Dr. Takeshi Matsumoto, MD: Internal medicine specialist in Los Angeles with over 40 years of…
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star There are good reasons the Worlds of Words Center at the University of Arizona is popularly known as “WOW,” and the acronym is only one of them.Last week, students from Paulo Freire Freedom School visited the center as part of an eighth-grade field trip. While there, they explored an exhibit featuring “paper sons” — a generation of Chinese immigrants who came to the U.S. with false identifies.Many of those young men were of middle-school age, themselves, and upon hearing of their harrowing experience one young Tucsonan could think of only one thing…
Saturday, Sept. 10 Guelph Farmer’s Market 2 Gordon St.; 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Local vendors selling food and drinks like Queen of Cups, Doug’s Honey, Revel Cider and more. Aberfoyle Farmer’s Market Puslinch Optimist Recreation Centre, 23 Brock Rd. S., 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Local vendors selling food, drinks and goods like honey, beeswax candles, handmade apple fritters, cookies and more. 180th Annual Aberfoyle Fall Fair Puslinch Optimist Recreation Centre, 23 Brock Rd. S., Puslinch, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fall fair is back, and will feature a number of different events. Childrens games begin at 11 a.m.,…
U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera, a professor emeritus of Chicano and Latin American studies at Fresno State, won a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in recognition of outstanding lifetime achievement in poetry. The prize, which includes a $100,000 award from the nonprofit Poetry Foundation, is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets. Herrera is the author of more than 30 books, including the new and expanded edition of his groundbreaking 1989 bilingual book “Akrílica,” published in 2022 by Noemi Press, and the poetry collection “Every Day We Get More Illegal,” published in 2020 by City Lights…
Squashed: A Graphic Novel Awareness Tour sponsored by Dooney PressThe Children’s Book Review Readers will fall for this spooktacular tale! Join us on the virtual book tour for Squashed: A Graphic Novel by Meaghan Tosi and based on a story by Thomas Tosi. “A shiveringly good tale for ghost story enthusiasts who like happy endings.” —Kirkus Reviews To learn more, follow along on the virtual book tour and enter the giveaway below for the chance to win an awesome Dooney Press Gift Pack of books and more fun goodies! Squashed Virtual Book Tour Dates Wednesday, September 7, 2022The Children’s Book…
Dylan Pacheco put his years of gaming experience to good use.Call of Duty. NBA 2K. Sea of Thieves. These are just a few video games Pacheco, 14, plays on a regular basis. But no game experience compared to the one he had on Wednesday.Pacheco got to tour the Oklahoma football team’s training facility in Norman from a room in the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital, where he is a patient. It was made possible by one of the hospital’s Omnibot, a 5-foot, 20-pound robot with an iPad and a microphone attached.The robot was sent to OU’s campus for the tour, and Pacheco…
FAYETTEVILLE — The Washington County Election Commission on Wednesday approved the ballot styles for the Nov. 8 general election and a list of early voting locations and election day vote centers.The information will be posted on the Washington County website under the Election Commission and on votewashco.com, election director Jennifer Price said.The commission heard requests Wednesday that election information be provided in multiple languages but took no action on the matter.Clint Schnekloth, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, said his congregation has done voter registration and education work in the Marshallese community and asked the commission to provide…