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Arizona Immigration and Education
April 30th, 2010 | No Comments
A blogger for the Wall Street Journal has written a post commenting on the impact the immigration law may have on education.
The new law requires police to question anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. The educational implication for this may result in the arbitrary firing of teachers with heavy accents or have less than standard English syntax or morphology.
Bilingual School
March 1st, 2010 | No Comments
I recently read a [url="http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/84361057.html?page=2#comments"]news article[/url] about a school in which I have been a substitute teacher. For reasons unknown to the general public, the principal and a teacher have been removed from their positions.
This is the only fully Spanish-bilingual school in a district with a high Latino population. Several other schools have bilingual classrooms, but at White Rock, every class is bilingual. In fact, all classroom teachers are required to speak, read, and write Spanish at the fluency of a native speaker.
An Interesting Debate on English Education at NYTimes.com
March 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Just a quick heads up: it looks like the NY Times has begun hosting a debate on immigration, and is starting with how to teach young children English.
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