Some experts questioning Ariz. instruction method for English

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...
 
Some experts questioning Ariz. instruction method

  The Associated Press Tucson, Arizona 08.04.2008

MESA. - Some education experts are expressing doubts about a new
strategy being used this school year for students who aren't
proficient in the English language. The policy, created by the state
Legislature in response to a lawsuit, will have non-English-speakers
going into specialized classrooms for four hours a day. While there,
the so-called English Language Learners will receive intensive English
training and they will stay there until they can pass the state's
language exam.

It's all part of the state's new plan to get students who don't speak
English to learn the language more quickly. State education officials
say it can be done in a year. Yet the plan is raising eyebrows among
some education experts across the country. One school district,
Sahuarita Unified, near Tucson, even rejected the plan for most of its
elementary school students, saying it worried the Office of Civil
Rights would find it discriminatory.

Full story:
http://texasedequity.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-experts-questioning-ariz.html

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