face of our schools
a short post today because though i've certainly lingered on chatham and pittsboro politics on a blog ostensibly only about tracy's and my daily life, these politics are potentially more charged.
still, after my post a while back about the future face of our country, i thought this was an interesting follow-up. california projects in the next 3 years it will become the second state in the country (behind new mexico) in which a majority of students in the public schools are latino. this, as the article suggests,
raises questions of whether Latino students should be forced to assimilate or schools should adapt to students. Specifically, how should students with poor English-language skills be taught in a state that has essentially tossed out bilingual education? What subject matter should students be taught and with what books?some serious questions, seriously related to my work, so i'm interested. but is anyone else interested just because it's crazy that only a few years back cali was a majority-white state? crazy.
posted by julie & tracy @ 2:09 PM
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And NYC, in my 4-day experience of it, has more brown-faced people than white-faced, and more speakers of English as a second language than of a first.... this is an awesome vibe in a city that has always been made of immigrants. But its larger implications??? I'm glad some smart people are thinking about this. Like you. <3 <3
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