US: Revisiting the Native American Languages Act of 1990

[Francis Hult]

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Revisiting the Native American Languages Act of 1990

By Mary Ann Zehr on July 15, 2010 9:50 AM

At a summit for revitalizing indigenous languages held this week here
in Washington, a founder of a Native Hawaiian language-immersion
school asked Charles Rose, the general counsel of the U.S. Department
of Education, to "please look at" the Native American Languages Act of
1990. The educator was among several founders of language-immersion
schools who argued that provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are
in conflict with the Native American Languages Act and a hindrance to
running language-immersion schools. I wrote about the educators'
petition to Rose for relief from some of those provisions in an
article published yesterday by Education Week.

Full story:

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/07/revisiting_the_native_american.html

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