Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘To those who ask, ‘where are you from?’ I wish the answer could be, I’m from that room where none of us can answer that question’

From her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), through her novels, essays and most recently collections such as Whereabouts (2018) and Roman Stories (2023), Jhumpa Lahiri ...

Schools to workplaces to churches, ICE actions impact life across Brevard

Across Brevard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' actions hit home for both immigrants and native-born Americans, ...

More than ABC and 1-2-3: Is my child ready for kindergarten? Here’s what experts look for

New federal data shows about two-thirds of the nation’s 3- to 5-year-olds are on track to enter kindergarten. In Texas, only ...

Cavaliers sportscaster gives back by tutoring in Akron Public Schools

Rafael Hernández-Brito from the Cavaliers draws on his experience as a native of El Salvador to help an "ESL dream team" at ...
Edutopia

Using Talk for Writing in Pre-K

Encouraging children to ‘write’ their own versions of tales like ‘The Three Little Pigs’ helps them build crucial early ...

Father picked up by ICE while buying diapers for his kids

A father in Hudson County was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday while picking up diapers for ...

When I moved my family from the US to the Netherlands over a year ago, I wish I'd avoided these 5 mistakes

When my American family left the United States to move to the Netherlands, we made mistakes with taxes, insurance, and more ...
Greater Good

How ICE Raids Are Affecting Children—And What Schools Can Do

What is immigration enforcement doing to kids and families? And what can schools do to protect their students’ mental health ...
WLRN

Here's looking at you, kid: How the term for a young goat made the leap to children

Kid, meaning a young goat, is a word that was borrowed from the Vikings around the 9th century. Centuries later, it came to ...

Psychological therapies for children whose first language isn't English can become lost in translation, study warns

Current school-based mental health support for children from multilingual backgrounds can be "lost in translation" because it is reliant on good proficiency in English, a new study warns. The work ...
Daily Mail

Can you put a price on the English language? FRED KELLY reveals over half a billion pounds was spent on teaching children who don't speak English as their first language last year

Schools now get a record £540million a year extra to teach children who don't speak English as a first language, the Daily Mail can reveal. Department for Education (DfE) figures for the current ...