U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva has introduced three bills to support English language learners, focusing on grant partnerships with higher education, expanding family literacy services, and investing in bilingual education for young students from low-income backgrounds.
If a 21st century American heard the way people spoke during the Revolutionary period, they'd hear a lot of words and phrases that sounded familiar. But the English they spoke was different from our modern day diction.
A University of Arizona Spanish instructor, Lara connects students with bilingual, community-based learning and career opportunities while men…
Desert Ink Press, a Green Valley-based bilingual children's publisher, has distributed 4,900 bilingual books to 47 organizations serving Native American children across southern Arizona since May.
The books include O'odham pronunciation glossaries and QR codes linking to native-speaker audio, helping families learn the language together.
Before he goes back to work as the patriarch in “The Gilded Age,” Morgan Spector had an opportunity to stretch his wings with a role in “I Don’t Understand You.”
This morning, 6/3 Loran, one of the triumvirate of letter writers who staunchly defend all that is Republican, did so again. In the last 5 or …
A Tohono O’odham girl growing up in the 1950s spent her formative years helping her farmworker family pick cotton in the fields in central Arizona.
The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U…
Social studies teachers: When you teach about the separation of powers under the Constitution, are you using present-tense or past-tense verbs?
A few days ago a story from you arrived in my inbox with the headline "Trying to ease ‘trauma’ for immigrants, children as enforcement ramps u…
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