Stanford Profs Oppose Arizona Stance on Teachers'Accents

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...
 

Stanford Profs Oppose Arizona Stance on Teachers' Accents
By Mary Ann Zehr on June 23, 2010 8:55 AM |

A long list of professors from Stanford University's school of
education have signed a statement condemning the Arizona Department of
Education's stance that teachers with strong accents shouldn't be
teaching English-language learners. "Not only is Arizona's policy
based on uninformed linguistic and educational assumptions, but such a
policy also has the potential to unfairly target Latina/o teachers and
their students by removing the very teachers who may be best qualified
to teach them," the statement says.

Full story:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/06/stanford_profs_condemn_arizona.html


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