The company has won the public sector contract to create the first state-level loan network in Colorado, where its technology will be used to provide services for electronic books, audio, and video.
The company has won the public sector contract to create the first state-level loan network in Colorado, where its technology will be used to provide services for electronic books, audio, and video.
What works for teaching students to read in English may be unnecessary for beginning readers in Spanish, shows the study "How important is teaching phonemic awareness to children learning to read in Spanish?" by Stanford Professor Claude Goldenberg and colleagues, to be published in American Educational Research Journal.
The literary club Creatio published the picks for best novels 2013 in two categories: Best Spanish novel, won by Dolores Redondo's “El Guardián Invisible” and Best Foreign novel, won by Kate Morton's “El Cumpleaños Secreto.” The winners received votes from literary blogs.
Spanish teacher and world language coordinator Rebecca Schwerdtfeger approached her local school board during the public comment portion of its monthly meeting to propose the idea of starting a dual-language school in Columbia, Missouri.
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) announces the appointment of Luis Maldonado to its new position of Chief Advocacy Officer (CAO), effective February 28, 2014. He brings nearly 20 years of combined experience in government relations and advocacy efforts both in the non-profit and corporate sector.
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 6 of 2014 (week ending 2/9/2014).
The Commerce Library’s Spanish Book Club started about 15 years ago, as part of the library system’s “Ambassadors of the Library” outreach effort to attract more Spanish speakers to the city’s libraries. All the books the group reads are in Spanish, as are the monthly discussions about what they’ve read.