Jan 27 Watch 7:02 What does the world lose when a language dies? By PBS News Hour “Language Matters,” a new PBS documentary, explores how linguistic heritage and traditional cultures around the world are at risk of being lost forever. Jeffrey Brown talks to the show’s host, poet Bob Holman, about the fight to revive languages on… Continue watching
Sep 01 How to start your own charter school: one family's recipe for startup success By Elizabeth Jones Wynee Sade and her husband along with four other families decided to establish their own dual-language Mandarin immersion school. Meeting at each other’s homes with just a blank sheet of paper, they began the long and arduous process of establishing… Continue reading
Dec 31 "Selfie" and "twerk" top 2013's most annoying word list @KofC epic #selfie #PopeFrancis pic.twitter.com/CLYduUpxDA— Fabio M. Ragona (@FabioMRagona) August 29, 2013 What words would you like to see banished in 2014? According to a Michigan university, "selfie" and "twerking" tops… Continue reading
Sep 12 Watch Poetry Project Helps Dementia Patients Live in the Moment In our new series, "Where Poetry Lives," Natasha Trethewey, poet laureate of the United States, and Jeffrey Brown spends time at the Alzheimer's Poetry Project in Brooklyn. The international program works with people with dementia to try to trigger memory by… Continue watching
Jul 18 Watch Language Wars: Should Spanish-Speaking Students Be Taught in English Only? Language Wars: Should Spanish-Speaking Students Be Taught in English Only?… Continue watching
Oct 02 Watch Spanish-Language Election Ad Spending Eight Times Higher in 2012 Than 2008 Spanish-Language Election Ad Spending Eight Times Higher in 2012 Than 2008… Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch On a Mission for Preservation, Poet Natalie Diaz Returns to Her Roots On a Mission for Preservation, Poet Natalie Diaz Returns to Her Roots… Continue watching
May 11 Watch Conversation: Poet Natalie Diaz Jeffrey Brown talks to poet Natalie Diaz. Continue watching
Mar 20 Watch Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge' Condoleezza Rice, Joel Klein Want to Make Education Better for National Security… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch Parlez-Vous? Some Louisiana Pupils Being Immersed in French Instruction Louisiana's French heritage is being embraced in many immersion classrooms in the state. It goes beyond language -- some students are learning math, science and social studies in French. Sue Lincoln of Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Southern Education Desk… Continue watching