Boston: The shame of our city's language instruction

[Francis Hult]

Boston Globe

 

The shame of our city's language instruction

 

Two things are striking, and shocking: that the Boston Public Schools would not yet be giving English language learner students their legal rights to special help (six years after the English immersion law went into effect), and that the state Department of Education has not yet come down hard on the district to demand action.

 

Full story:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2009/09/04/the_shame_of_our_citys_language_instruction/

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