Webster School on Peoria’s South Side offers Head Start for bilingual and Spanish-Speaking kids. Just a decade ago, there were only a handful of Hispanic students. Now there are two classrooms with teachers who are dedicated to helping them transition to English.
America Reads Spanish is proud to celebrate its tenth anniversary by launching a redesigned version of its portal. We invite you to check it out at: www.americareadsspanish.org
Fatima Orozco (most commonly known as “Fa”) succeeds among teenagers by posting book reviews on BookTuber. Emerging platform gaining traction, especially in Latin America, but still trails behind You Tube in terms of number of subscribers.
On August 4, 2015, president Barack Obama met with business creators in what he said was a birthday gift to himself, a day dubbed "White House Demo Day." Among the entrepreneurs was Luis von Ahn the creator of Duolingo, a free language learning app. Von Ahn of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is originally from Guatemala and his language app has more than 100 million users worldwide.
Making its English debut, “Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society” sews together Vargas Llosa’s recent musings on the loss of a common cultural canon of books, as well as loss of ground (loss of interest) in other “high” arts, such as painting and classical music.
Jim Dunlap opened the shop in 1980.
Andrés Trapiello’s modern-language version of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic is ‘necessary’ says expert, as Spanish academics rebel.
District's goal to eventually have ELL programs in each school.
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 33 of 2015 (week ending 8/16/2015).
Spanish Town Abolishes Bullfights in Favor of Books.
