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News In Slow French – Great for intermediate learners average for beginner and advanced French learners. Image from Unsplash This online languages platform focuses on delivering handy content for French language learners of all levels in a very functional manner. This News in Slow French review aims at looking at the features, strengths, and weaknesses the platform has as well as make a comparison with some of its peers. News In Slow French Review Strengths The presenters at News in Slow French deliver current event topics in an engaging and fun way. They always explain expressions and grammar in each lesson right after a conversation has ended making it feel natural. They have a giant archive of grammar, expressions catalog,...

  Mystifying control … Jim Crace. Photograph: Matt Writtle My hero:  Jim Crace  by Daniel Hahn Jim Crace is a genius. I have read Harvest, which has just won the Impac prize, three times – and I still don’t know how he does it Saturday 20 June 2015I’m currently on a translators’ residency, where one of our recurring dinnertime arguments is about whether genius exists, and if so, what it is. To some, it describes an ability, a gift, that is not merely above average but is somehow beyond comprehension; not just considerable skill, but inexplicable skill. If that definition holds, then Jim Crace, I think, is a genius. His 10th novel, Harvest – a small story about great change – has just won...

Vendor: Gibbs Smith Type: Book Price: 12.99 Where BabyLit® primers teach basic concepts, BabyLit® Storybooks are the next step up for both reader age and comprehension, telling stories that give classics new life for the next generation of early readers. BabyLit® primers have become the chic, smart way to introduce babies to the most beloved and readable literature of our time. Gibbs Smith is now presenting a delightful collection of picture books, lovingly designed and crafted for young children. Each book retells a story from the literary canon, bringing a classic to life for an entirely new audience. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, preschoolers enjoy a whirlwind adventure to a magical land, meeting new friends, facing dangerous foes, and learning that...

Read Ahead AI turns any digital text into a guided reading activity with intelligent scaffolding to improve students’ reading comprehension and deepen their engagement. Using Read Ahead AI’s patented and proven methodology, students experience greater gains in reading motivation and comprehension across all content areas while they increase their overall reading time. Teachers can track student progress and assess their learning. The organization behind the product, Full Tilt Ahead, LLC, has a vision to combine open educational resources, student experience, teacher practice and machine learning to fundamentally change instruction and assessment practices for the better. Read Ahead AI is the Cool Tool Award Winner (2021) for “Best OER / Open Learning Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards from EdTech...

In a lesser-known part of his March on Washington speech, Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.”  Many people, upon hearing this, might assume that King was simply referring to the violence wreaked by the police department in Birmingham, Alabama, and its commissioner, Bull Connor, during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s desegregation campaign that spring. But King understood that police brutality—like segregation—wasn’t just a southern problem.Earlier that year, shortly after getting out of jail in Birmingham, King traveled to Los Angeles and delivered a speech to 35,000 people at Wrigley Field. The city was in the midst of a growing effort, led by...