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Shifting demographics and economic interests are transforming views on multilingual education around the country.
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<a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/01/27/need-for-bilingual-educators-moves-school-recruitment.html">Need for Bilingual Educators Moves School Recruitment Abroad</a>
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<div>For big-city districts, Puerto Rico and Spain have becoming
recruiting hot spots amid a shortage of teachers for dual-immersion and
English-as-a-second-language programs.
<div class="">January 25, 2016<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<div>A national commitment to adult education could transform the U.S. economy, writes high school teacher Scott Goldstein.
<div class="">December 1, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<div>Shifting demographics and economic interests are transforming views on multilingual education around the country.
<div class="">October 6, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<div>With strong demand for bilingual skills, more school districts are
offering new target languages, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Vietnamese,
in dual-immersion programs.
<div class="">September 15, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/07/14/congress-bilingualism-is-not-a-handicap.html">Congress: Bilingualism Is Not a Handicap</a>
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<div>An all-English approach to English-language learning is a "setback for all of us," writes Stanford professor Claude Goldenberg.
<div class="">July 14, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<div>The nation's largest school district, which enrolls 160,000 ELLs,
remains under a state-imposed corrective-action plan to improve services
for English-learners.
<div class="">June 9, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/05/13/bilingual-students-need-support-in-their-native.html">Bilingual Students Need Support in Their Native Language</a>
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<div>The ESEA language policy does not reflect the critical role a
student's first language plays in cognitive development, writes Joe
Levitan.
<div class="">May 12, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/05/13/economic-hardships-need-not-mean-huge-deficits.html">Economic Hardships Need Not Mean 'Huge Deficits' in School</a>
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<div>Southeast Asian students are a sometimes-forgotten group with
specific language and learning needs, say Quyen Dinh and Brenda Shum.
<div class="">February 3, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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<div>Federal education officials have granted the state's request to
delay using the test scores of English-learners in school grades until
such students have been in U.S. schools for two years.
<div class="">January 5, 2015<span class=""> - Education Week</span></div>
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