NAP report on immigrants

The National Academies Press just released a report and a new infographic 10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Immigrants. Two points refer to language: (1) Today’s immigrants are learning English as the same rate or faster than earlier waves of immigrants and (2) 9% of students in the K12 system are in programs designed to help improve their English proficiency.

Graduation Cake at Language Pod

In the Language Pod we have a tradition of celebrating our students who are graduating and moving on to exciting new endeavors. Cake is central to that tradition. Congratulations to Hannah and Taylor, 2 of my fabulous 5700 students from Spring 2017 who went to to work as Research Assistants in the Pod and who head next to graduate work in Speech and Hearing Sciences!