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Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced preliminary guidelines for the $650 Million Investing In Innovation (i3) grant program.
Unlike the previously announced Race to the Top funds which were only for public schools, i3 funds will also be available to non-profits, charter schools, colleges, and private companies.
A new report on the needs of English language learners in two of the world’s fastest growing economies, India and China, was released last week by the British Council.
Approaching English as a purely technical task, says Jon Huer, columnist for the Korea Times, is what explodes in the face of most Korean learners of English. For students to learn English, according to Huer, they must learn to “think in English.”
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