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In the United States, about 70 new federal grants for language education to school districts over the past year, more than half include Mandarin programs. A number of National Foreign Language Center's long-standing recommendations gained support. These include development of the language capabilities of U.S. heritage speakers, teaching languages to higher levels, development of improved K-12 programming in critical languages and articulation among K-12 programs, higher education programs, study abroad, and the world of work. NFLC website

Have you noticed that some of the most "POPULAR" language programs and methods are suddenly getting on board the 21st century train and offering live online learning? Learning a language online in the comfort of your own home with the assistance of a teacher is a truly genius concept. The only problem is, developing a curriculum, finding great teachers and integrating a fully functional eLearning program with progressive technological tools doesn't happen overnight.

Lookup is a publicly available interactive searching program Jeffrey wrote primarily to allow him to access edict and kanjidic quickly and concisely, though it should be quite useful for searching any line-based text file (it's been used to quickly search huge C programs, English word-lists, and even e-mail archives). It features a rich and powerful flavor of regular expression search with support for Japanese text. If you would like to learn more about regular expressions, the powerful tool used to help you in your dictionary queries, see Mastering Regular Expressions and its successor, Mastering Regular Expressions Second Edition.

VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.

QuickDiff is an interesting tool that analyses differences in two very similar texts. It was actually developed for examining programming code, but could be a really useful tool to use with students to get them to look more closely at the texts they write and notice the mistakes and corrections and differences in the text.

QuickDiff is an interesting tool that analyses differences in two very similar texts. It was actually developed for examining programming code, but could be a really useful tool to use with students to get them to look more closely at the texts they write and notice the mistakes and corrections and differences in the text.

In today's world learning another language is by far easier than ever before. We have unlimited access that we never had before. New programs and iterative tactics have made it possible for anyone to learn a foreign language. This website was designed to give you the view access to great system that I have personal used to learn another language.

Online, interactive, standards-based science curriculum www.science4us.com

A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills. Explore the map by selecting what you want to learn more about, to see definitions and activities. Start teaching others how to read, write and participate on the web with these free activities created by teachers, educators and technologists like you. Each featured activity includes step-by-step instructions and has been tested in schools, afterschool programs, libraries and community centers around the globe. Whether learning how to code, understanding why privacy matters, or creating openly-licensed web content, we believe teaching the web should be fun and engaging!

Meet winner our Spring 2015 GMR Transcription scholarship - Alex Nielson. Read his story and what inspires him to become an inventor.

Comprehensive wiki for middle school French program - instructional materials online

French teacher uses wiki to teach French to beginners: has notes, exercises, flash cards, videos, and more

Dexway provides the market's most complete language learning technology, featuring loads of interactivity, professor for tutelage via virtual classes, continuous monitoring of student performance and speech recognition technology for the evaluation of pronunciation

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