Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language New York Times article Published: October 10, 2011 www.nytimes.com ****************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Information forwarded by the Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum  (CLAC) conference in March 2012. Download CALL FOR PAPERS pdf >>

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English-only debate revs up
in Minnesota
Star Tribune

Efforts to declare English the official language of Minnesota are getting the most serious attention in years at the State Capitol as part of a movement sweeping the country. If bills now working through the Minnesota House and Senate pass, such a law would stop most government information from being translated into different languages.

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Being bilingual: Beneficial workout for the brain
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate, a series of scientific findings has shown. In the latest research, described at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the onset of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease was delayed by more than four years in elderly bilingual adults, even though they had identical brain damage compared with a group of adults in the study who spoke only one language

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First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language

A language is lost every fourteen days. One of those endangered tongues is Minnesota’s own Ojibwe language. Now a new generation of Ojibwe scholars and educators are racing against time to save the language. Working with the remaining fluent-speaking Ojibwe elders, they hope to pass the language on to the next generation. But can this language be saved?  Told by Ojibwe elders, scholars, writers, historians and teachers, this tpt original production is filled with hope for the future.
http://www.tpt.org

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New Russian Language Charter School!
A new Russian language charter school is in the works in the Twin Cities!  Currently, a petition is underway to make this school possible.  To learn more and to support their efforts, please visit: www.nashashkolamn.org

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Korean Immersion Language School Being Planned!
The Sejong Academy of Minnesota board members and volunteers are in the process of preparing an application for a Twin Cities Charter School for Korean language immersion. We will apply for a Korean language immersion charter school in the central Twin Cities area in June, 2010. We are applying to open a K-4 school in September, 2011 in the Twin Cities. We will add a grade every year until we reach K-8.  Want to learn more or sign a petition to help our school get started?  Please visit our website: www.sejongacademy.org.