Dream of a Common Language. Sueño de un Idioma Común

The graduates of a radical bilingual education program at Alicia R. Chacón International, in El Paso, would have no trouble reading either of these headlines. What can they teach the rest of us about the future of Texas?

... the dual language experiment has been a success by any measure. By the sixth grade, kids in the program—regardless of which language they spoke when they first enrolled—are outscoring native English speakers on the TAKS tests. They can also read, write, and speak Spanish at a sophisticated level. Full Story »

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by Liz Lawyer - Aug. 25, 2009

The article covers many angles of the issue, rather than giving it a cursory treatment.

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