The Texas State Board of Education voted 11-3 to add elective courses to include Special Topics in Social Studies to include Mexican-, African-, Asian-, and Native American Studies. Cortez's measure had bipartisan support. The measure was sponsored by Texas State Board of Education member Ruben Cortez Jr.
REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speakers, encourage libraries, schools, educational institutions, and other youth-serving organizations that plan and implement Día programs during 2014, to submit their application for Estela and Raúl Mora Award by August 15, 2014.
Inspired by her bilingual son, Colombian-American Edna Benavides opened Drops of Love last week, a bicultural center, and there will be an open house 6:30 to 9 p.m. April 15.
Barnes & Noble’s Nook digital device and content platform is now doing business in 32 countries and 14 languages, and countries like India, Singapore and Spanish-language markets have been pointed as places where there was not yet much digital content or ebook purchasing activity, but were promising targets for expansion.
BiblioBoard, a fast-growing mobile library platform, announced a new content licensing partnership with e-Libro, one of the industry’s largest distributors of Spanish language eBooks.
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 14 of 2014 (week ending 4/6/2014).
The Hispanohablantes program began in 1998 as a way to help students who grew up speaking Spanish at home develop reading and writing fluency.
The YA market for books in Spanish (trade and school) in the U.S. will never be as large as the one in English, but it is healthy, growing, and one that commands attention. An expert gives two reasons to this growth: immigration of Latin Americans and dual language education.
Publishers of Spanish books based both in the U.S. and abroad are positioning themselves to benefit from the hoped-for uptick in sales.
The current issue features new releases like "Cortázar de la A a la Z" by Julio Cortázar and "El caballero de San Petersburgo" by Mayra Montero, an interview with Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán in ARS TV, and actor Chris Hemsworth as Amigo del Español.
