Where Education and Assimilation Collide

Walking the halls of Cecil D. Hylton High School outside Washington, it is hard to detect any trace of the divisions that once seemed fixtures in American society.

Two girls, a Muslim in a headscarf and a strawberry blonde in tight jeans, stroll arm in arm. A Hispanic boy wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt gives a high-five to a black student with glasses and an Afro. The lanky homecoming queen, part Filipino and part Honduran, runs past on her way to ... Full Story »

Posted by Kristin Gorski
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Subjects: World, U.S., Education
Topics: Immigration
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Posted by: Posted by Kristin Gorski - Mar 15, 2009 - 2:29 PM PDT
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Mar 30, 2009 - 3:35 PM PDT

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Matisse Enzer
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by Matisse Enzer - Mar. 15, 2009

Well researched, well told, thought provoking.

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by Michael D. Sullivan - Mar. 15, 2009

There are few news sources that would put a reporter in a school for the better part of a year to report on how immigrants learn (or do not) and how they are taught and socialized.

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