The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board of education heard a report Wednesday assessing the improvements to Berkeley literacy programs after the settlement BUSD reached in July of 2021.
Advocates say Sacramento’s reluctance to hand down clear mandates means some schools’ approaches to literacy instruction remain woefully out of date. But there are signs of progress.
The Japan Foundation Asia Center has launched the Asian Literature Project 'YOMU', introducing the literature and literary scenes of Southeast Asian countries. At the start of the project, translators, editors and publishers gathered online to talk about the Asian literary situation and Asian literature from a bird's-eye view of the global literary.