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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Revisiting the Native American Languages Act of 1990<BR><BR>By Mary Ann Zehr on July 15, 2010 9:50 AM<BR><BR>At a summit for revitalizing indigenous languages held this week here<BR>in Washington, a founder of a Native Hawaiian language-immersion<BR>school asked Charles Rose, the general counsel of the U.S. Department<BR>of Education, to "please look at" the Native American Languages Act of<BR>1990. The educator was among several founders of language-immersion<BR>schools who argued that provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are<BR>in conflict with the Native American Languages Act and a hindrance to<BR>running language-immersion schools. I wrote about the educators'<BR>petition to Rose for relief from some of those provisions in an<BR>article published yesterday by Education Week.<BR><BR>Full story:<BR><BR><A href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/07/revisiting_the_native_american.html">http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/07/revisiting_the_native_american.html</A><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>