AUSTIN, TX Senator José Rodríguez's SB 159, which will help maintain and expand cutting-edge dual-language education in schools across the state, including programs in the El Paso Independent School District, has passed a key hurdle after being voted out of committee this week.
College students aren’t really getting a lot younger. It just looked that way this week as nearly 2,000 fourth, fifth- and sixth-graders from across the state came to Utah Valley University’s campus. They were attending a world language farm for dual immersion language students.
About.com en español’s Romulo Parra reviews the most popular titles in Spanish in America.
A recent day-long event in New York highlighted the opportunities and current situation of translations of books in Spanish in the US market.
Board budgeted additional funds to purchase library books.
If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain, as the popular saying goes. This same concept comes alive most weekends in the form of books that make their way from libraries and bookshelves into the hands of small children in an unexpected place — the mall.
The main objective of the New Spanish Books project is to inform professionals of the publishing industry about titles with translation rights available for purchase from Spain’s publishing houses and literary agents.
Reed Elementary School (Austin, TX) is the first Leander ISD school to teach a dual language program, instructing children in Spanish three days a week and in English two days a week.
Bowker's popular MyIdentifiers.com, an online resource for tools that make books more easily discovered, is now available in Spanish, extending the website's services to a broader range of customers. Just like its English-language equivalent, the new site – www.myidentifiers.com/es/ -- makes it easy to purchase ISBNs, barcodes, QR codes and the range of other services Bowker offers to help connect publishers with book buyers.
Given the outsized influence that 33-year-old Books & Books and owner Mitchell Kaplan have exerted on independent bookstores and the literary culture at large, the biggest surprise about this year’s PW Bookstore of the Year Award is that it didn’t happen earlier.
