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Hall schools now ‘growing our own’ bilingual teachers

About a dozen Hispanic students who graduated in May from West High and Johnson high schools will make up the initial class of students in an initiative designed to supply the district with a “pipeline” of bilingual teachers for the district.

Ana Elba Pavon and David Lopez, 2017 Reforma Award Winners

Ana Elba Pavon is the recipient of the 2017 REFORMA Elizabeth Martinez Lifetime Achievement Award (LAA) in recognition for her outstanding leadership and contributions to REFORMA and the organization's core mission of promoting library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish speaking.

English PEN announces its latest list of PEN Translates award winners

English PEN is the founding centre of a global literary network. We work to defend and promote freedom of expression, and to remove barriers to literature. César Aira, Alberto Arce, Javier Cercas and Alicia Kopf among the 18 winners.

First-graders read 15k books in Spanish over school year

Holland Language Academy first-graders are quick to list their favorite books read during the year: books about dinosaurs, aliens, a panda. One girl read several of the Boxcar Children books. The first-graders in Courtney Eaton’s class had plenty of books to choose from as favorites.

AAP StatShot: Book Publisher Trade Sales Flat for 2016

Religious Presses and Childrens & Young Adult Books saw increased revenue; all other measured categories declined. Print books return to growth in hardback and paperback formats, and board books saw nearly double-digit growth

Knight Center journalist-in-residence Ismael Nafría reflects on year in Austin and announces newsletter on media innovation

In August 2016, Catalan journalist Ismael Nafría and his family traveled 5,330 miles from Barcelona to Austin, Texas to spend a year at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas, as part of its Journalist-in-Residence program.

‘El Día E’ on June 24: The Instituto Cervantes Sofia celebrates in the street

‘El Día E’ or ‘The Day E’ celebrates the second-most important language in the world after Chinese, which is Spanish. Celebrating is exactly what the Instituto Cervantes in Sofia intends to do on June 24, 2017. It might be “la fiesta de todos los que hablamos español”, or “the party for all of us who speak Spanish”, but still absolutely everyone is invited.

Get to know this week's List for the week 23 ending on June 11th, 2017

Nielsen 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 23 of 2017 (week ending 6/11/2017).

CULTURA, the supplement from La Nueva España, and Juan Antonio Bayona, 2017 LIBER Awards

Madrid, June 12, 2017.- The Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE) has granted the Liber 2017 Prize for the promotion of reading in the Media to La Nueva España for its supplement 'Culture'.

The Madrid Book Fair increases its sales by 8%

The Madrid Book Fair, which closed its 76th edition on Sunday, has increased its sales by 8% over the previous year, which is a figure of 8.8 million euros, according to the provisional data provided by the organization.

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