NPD BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US market for week 14 of 2018 (week ending 04/08/2018).
NPD BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US market for week 14 of 2018 (week ending 04/08/2018).
The X Young Poetry Prize that RNE announces in collaboration with the Montemadrid Foundation has been awarded this year to the Andalusian Sergio Navarro Ramírez for his work Una imagen imposible. This award seeks to recognize the work of young authors under 30 years and enhance their career.
McNally Jackson is an independent bookseller which 99% of the books have been originally written in Spanish, 50% of them come exclusively from Latin America and Spain.
A new online Spanish-language bookstore is set to launch in the U.S. this month. Libros in Español (www.librosinespanol.com) will take off on April 15 with “a couple of thousand” physical Spanish-language titles, according to founder Filipe Silva, all of which will be published in the U.S., Spain, or Latin America.
HACU’s Annual Conference on Hispanic higher education heads to Atlanta, Oct. 6-8. Register today. An early bird rate is available through May 31st for the conference and pre- and post-conference events. Online registration is open.
Almost 50 Colorado students are getting ready to compete this weekend in a spelling bee where they’ll be spelling words in Spanish.
Garden Grove Unified School District (GGUSD) is set to launch the Russell Elementary Language Academy beginning in 2018-2019. The new Spanish Dual Language Academy is the second of its kind in GGUSD and will meet a growing demand to provide students with a pathway to learn, read and write in both English and Spanish.
PureFlix is best known for their family friendly, and faith based programming. Now they are looking to expand from English only shows and movies, to Spanish-language programming.
Overall, 85% of Latino parents say they speak Spanish to their children, according to the Center’s 2015 National Survey of Latinos. Among immigrant parents, nearly all (97%) say they do this.
It was a full house at the Albany County School District No. 1 Board of Education meeting March 21. Many of those in attendance were waiting for the board to expand the Dual-Language Immersion Program to the second grade at Indian Paintbrush and Spring Creek elementary schools.
