The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Cibola HIgh School, Albuquerque, NM, has an opening for a full-time Italian teacher, beginning in August 2014. The position involves teaching levels 1 through AP. Cibola, part of the Albuquerque Public Schools District, is an urban high school with approximately 1800 students and a growin...
READ MORESteven Hughes, Ph.D., professor and chair of history at Loyola University Maryland, is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Grant to study the 19th and 20th century evolution of an Italian law that drastically lessened the punishment for honor killings. Hughes will conduct his research in Rome during the 2014-15 academic year, with...
READ MOREThe We Love Italian campaign in the Bay Area is raising needed money to bolster Italian language education and Italian AP test taking among schoolchildren. And the work is paying off. Just recently, the Lowell High School in San Francisco received a $7,000 grant from the campaign to replace old textbooks, which were falling apart, with a new text c...
READ MOREWe are pleased to announce the publication of the Calandra Institute's 2016 College Scholarship Handbook. This directory provides information on well over one hundred scholarships available to Italian American students and students of Italian studies. Please be advised that the Calandra Institute does not provide additional scholarship inf...
READ MORELa Scuola d'Italia, the 38-year-old independent, bi-lingual Pre-K through 12 private school, has acquired a building at 432 west 58th Street from the Mount Sinai Health System, to consolidate its two locations enabling the school to expand from 300 to up to 700 students from nursery, pre K through 12 from September 2016. Renovations will i...
READ MOREStar Bright Montessori is happy to announce that they are now welcoming young students to their newly opened school in Orange County. Star Bright Montessori provides Montessori education to children ages 18 months to 6 years of age. The school has three available programs, Toddler, Primary and Parent-Child program. The Toddler program is d...
READ MOREby Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino Il sottosegretario Roberto Reggi, in un'intervista al quotidiano Repubblica, rilasciata il 2 luglio, ha annunciato un aumento dell'orario, fino a 36 ore, per tutti i docenti italiani. Secondo il video di Gilda TV, dal titolo Le 36 ore di Reggi. Insegnanti, giù le mani dalla scuola, la proposta sarà presentata...
READ MOREWhen: October 27, 2014 — 6 to 9 p.m.Where: swissnex Boston – 420 Broadway, Cambridge , MAswissnex Boston and the Consulate General of Italy are celebrating the Settimana della Lingua Italiana. As part of this special series, an expert panel will discuss the universal character of the Italian language. The Subject Which Wasn't There: A...
READ MORECall for papers: AAIS 2015, Boulder, Colorado, 26-29 March 2015Voyage to Italy: a Cinematic Journey on Contemporary Italian Cinema (Panel)Organizer: Tina Pugliese (University of Colorado at Boulder)The panel is open to contributions that explore modern and contemporary Italian cinematic representations and most recent trends in Italian cinema, and...
READ MOREThere is a major city in the United States where the history of Italian emigration, very interesting and full of content, is undoubtedly embodied by a personality, universally recognized and appreciated. That city is Chicago, and the person who has been studying for a long time the Italian emigration and presence there, is Dominic Candeloro. We me...
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