Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Best Ways to Teach Young Newcomers

There are several interesting articles here with strategies to teach immigrant children. - - Donna Poisl

By The Editors

Welcome to a national conversation about immigration. Starting today, readers and specialists are invited to discuss themes that will be explored each Sunday in a series of articles that will appear online and in the newspaper in the coming months.

The first article, to be published this weekend, will report on a Virginia school district that segregates students who are the children of immigrants, and who don’t speak English well, to make it easier to give them intensive support. Is that a good idea?

Here in Room for Debate, experts in the education of children learning English are already discussing strategies that schools around the country are adopting to help these students meet rising academic standards.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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