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More than half of millennials in Los Angeles are bilingual

Los Angeles, California, has one of the largest multi-ethnic group of millennials, those between ages 18 and 34, in the United States, and more than half of them speak more than one language.

Classroom workflow app supports bilingual education

Vision ME by Netop, ideal for bilingual education, foreign language lessons, and English language learners, is now available in Spanish, French, Dutch and German, as well as English. The app supports mixed language classrooms, where each student chooses the language setting that works best for them.

Library Journal announces 2015 “Movers & Shakers”

Chosen from more than 300 nominations, the 50 individuals and one organization named 2015 Movers & Shakers are passionate about what they do, whether it is advocating for literacy and diversity, serving the underserved or spreading and sharing technology.

Association of American Publishers StatShot shows publisher sales up in 2014

Publishers’ aggregated net revenues were up +4.9% in 2014 compared to 2013. The growth was driven primarily by Children/Young Adult and PreK-12 instructional materials.

Dallas educator named best bilingual teacher of the year in U.S.

Withers Elementary School ISD bilingual teacher Irma De La Guardia has been named teacher of the year by the National Association for Bilingual Education.

ProQuest adds research tools for scholars of Spanish literature

The company, specialized in offering flexible solutions for librarians, students and researchers, is improving research outcomes for scholars of Spanish literature by amping the power of the classic Bibliografia de la Literatura Española (BLE).

“Santa Biblia / Holy Bible: Reina-Valera 1909” published by Barbour Publishing is #1 best selling title in Spanish in the US for week 10

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 10 of 2015 (week ending 3/8/2015).

ABC remembers editor Saturnino Calleja with his grandson

The legendary editor died 100 years ago on July 7th. Don Enrique opens the door of his house to the Spanish newspaper to share a true treasure of memories of his grandfather.

Fernando Marías wins the Biblioteca Breve award

The Spanish author won with his autobiography “La isla de mi padre,” published by Seix Barral last week in Spain and to be available later in Latin America.

Don't miss the excerpt of Arturo Pérez Reverte's upcoming novel

"Hombres buenos”, published by Alfaguara, will be released next Thursday, March 12.

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