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Back to School Daze

Judith Harris

This was back-to-school week for no less than nine million young Italians. But more important than the numbers is that this September marks the first test for the application of a...

La Scuola d'Italia Acquires 102,000 SF Building in Manhattan

i. I.

Announcing a Major New Italian Educational and Cultural Center in New York: La Scuola d'Italia Acquires Fourteen Floor 102,000 Square Foot Manhattan Building near Columbus Circle...

The Decline of the Italian Language: the Problems with the Education System in Italy

R. C,

According to a very recent CNN article written by Rome-based freelance reporter and writer Silvia Marchetti, Italy, one of the most culturally rich countries in Europe and the...

Italy’s School Daze and the Economy

Judith Harris

The government headed by Premier Matteo Renzi is promoting its school reform plan, which would give jobs to 148,000 new teachers while introducing merit promotions. However, the...

Teaching Italian through films: The first Beautiful Thing

Bianca Soria

In the last two decades, the field of language pedagogy has shown an indisputable success in adopting new multimedia technologies and in utilizing audiovisual material. Films are...

Google Celebrates Maria Montessori’s 142nd Birthday

Francesca Giuliani

Born in Chiaravalle, Italy, in 1870, Montessori would have turned 142 on Friday. Google celebrated this special anniversary with a themed homepage Doodle featuring some of the...

Learning Italian in a Los Angeles kindergarten

Judith Harris

There is a public, not a private, school in California that is unique: it offers its students, beginning in kindergarten, full immersion in studies of a second language, which can...

Maria Montessori: Children's Champion

Maria Rita Latto

The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. celebrates its 34th annual Italian Heritage and Culture Month this October with the theme: “A Tribute to Dr. Maria...

Organized Culture

Fred Gardaphe

If you believe that the “Jersey Shore” show of MTV is really gangsters without guns, then you should do something about it. But since when have we become afraid of our youth?...

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