ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort that could one day help better protect them. Like many whales and dolphins, sperm whales are highly […]
May 5—Kit Standridge has a special skill. Inside her Spanish classroom at the Academy for Technology and the Classics, everyone is accepted and appreciated, said Jason Morgan, the school’s principal. “She’s at the top of teachers who are just welcoming and caring and considerate of every student who walks through the door — making sure […]
May 4—Dignitaries from the Kiowa Tribe made an appearance at the University of Oklahoma to honor the career of a retiring Kiowa instructor who is an elder and respected member of her tribal community. In attendance were Chairman Lawrence SpottedBird, Vice Chairman Jacob Tsotigh, and Ben Lucero Wolf, District 6 legislator. Martha Poolaw, 84, was […]
The longtime principal of Kansas City Public Schools’ Foreign Language Academy was placed on administrative leave in February, and won’t return for the 2024-2025 school year. His attorney says he plans to take legal action against the district, alleging he was discriminated against during his employment. A contract for Joell Ramsdell, who has served as […]
In 2019, Akua Page was invited to a juvenile incarceration facility in Richland county, South Carolina, to give a presentation about the Gullah Geechee language, an English-based creole created by enslaved Africans. When the teens walked into the room, Page recalled, they seemed hardened, angry and annoyed. Undeterred, she began her lesson. “I told them: […]
Guest Opinion. Preserving and revitalizing our language is the most important task facing the modern Cherokee Nation. We are not alone in this. Nationwide, tribal communities have taken up the challenge to safeguard Native languages. For Native peoples, maintaining our language is synonymous with sustaining our identity and our very way of life. Without language, […]
One of the quirky things I enjoy about traveling abroad is the variety of languages my ears hone in on as like-minded travelers from around the globe gravitate to the same places I have chosen to visit. In Portugal, where I recently ended a five-week stay, it is a virtual Tower of Babel with a […]
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(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that what it has described for more than two years as its “special military operation” in Ukraine had “become a war” because of the involvement of the West. Here is a look at why Russia is changing its terminology. IT WAS ALWAYS A WAR, SO WHY CALL IT […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back Thursday on criticism from White House officials and others who argued he should not have let special counsel Robert Hur use language claiming that President Joe Biden suffers from memory loss in his report on the president’s handing of classified documents. In his report, Hur described the president’s memory […]
Tom Horne, a Republican, is state superintendent of public instruction. Score one for parental choice and for state superintendents staying in their own lane. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed state Superintendent Tom Horne’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a dual language program for children who haven’t yet mastered English. Oh, the horror. That […]
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While most people speak only one language or perhaps two, some are proficient in many. These people are called polyglots. And they are helping to provide insight into how the brain deals with language, the principal method of human communication. In a new study involving a group of polyglots, […]