Sweden to expand teaching of minority languages
The Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish,
Read moreThe Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish,
Read moreFor decades, teacher Arnold Marks has called the small Interior Alaska village of Tanana, about 130 air miles west of
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Read moreA retired university professor from Canada’s University of Manitoba says education spending in the North has gotten out of hand.
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Read moreNormally used to alert the hamlet to an emergency, the siren in Kugluktuk, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory
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Read moreWhen a made-in-Nunavut Education Act was passed by the legislative assembly in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2008,
Read moreStudents at Qarmartalik School in Resolute, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, were told to stay home
Read moreAsk most Alaska or Outside grade-school students if they would choose modestly longer school days in exchange for perpetual three-day
Read moreSwedish-language advocate Paavo Lipponen is relieved that politicians are demonstrating a more positive attitude towards learning Swedish, the other official
Read moreGALENA — Seventeen-year-old Anthony Solomon was not afraid in May as he watched the Yukon River crest its banks and
Read moreA citizen’s initiative opposing mandatory Swedish-language classes in the Finnish school system has gathered 50,000 signatures within 6 months and
Read moreFor years, leaders in the Alaska Native community have tried to negotiate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for permission
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