use of English by speakers with different native languages
Joseph Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon details the impact of bad border policy on one Midwestern community. The migrants began to trickle into Whitewater, a sleepy town of 15,000…
“Teachers wanted: CMS still hiring as opening day looms” is the headline of a story published by the Charlotte Observer yesterday. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) and other large urban districts across…
View in your browser. Welcome The mainstream media is reporting that the Houston Independent School District will hold a job fair in Raleigh later this week. The folks from Houston…
A lawsuit is brewing (1, 2). Four civil rights groups want the US Justice Department to investigate claims that two seventeen-year-old, low-proficiency-English students of Hispanic descent were told they were…
View in your browser. Welcome Do North Carolina classrooms look like the planet Gideon from Season 3, Episode 16 of Star Trek? Bulletin Board Learn. The John Locke Foundation and…
The Asheville Regional Airport will likely get passenger boarding bridges so folks won’t have to walk on the tarmac. The cost is $1,558,054 in free money from the federal deficit.…
A new study concludes that strong English is the key to immigrants? school success. Moreover, the quality of a school’s language arts program is “strongly linked” to whether they acquire…
The DPI authors of this dreck are which — ESL or LEP? They have no IDEA how to write. Jeff, is “IDEA” capitalized for stress, or is it an acronym…
To prove a point about the confusing world of English as a Second Language (ESL) talk, I wrote the following sentence, featured in my latest Spotlight: Instead of using SIOP…
RALEIGH – North Carolina schools need better teaching methods to help students with limited English speaking skills. That’s the recommendation in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report. “The best…
The number of limited English proficient (LEP) students has been increasing for years, but the state’s public schools lack a systematic and proven program to teach English to these children.…
Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription) included an article detailing the effects of immigration on schools in the South, specifically in North Carolina: Report Warns Influx Of Hispanics in South Creates…