A collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles school district aims for the kind of bilingual excellence that's common in Europe.

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...

UCLA's New School of Thought
A collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles school district aims
for the kind of bilingual excellence that's common in Europe.

By Angilee Shah

In many ways, Io McNaughton's classroom is a lot like others in the
Los Angeles Unified School District. Most students in the school -
located in the center of the city, between Pico Union and Koreatown -
are Latino and from low-income households; half are English-language
learners. McNaughton has the same challenges as any elementary school
teacher. She motions across the room to a group huddled on a plush
rug, talking in their "outside voices." "Turn down the volume," she
says with her hands, twisting an imaginary television dial. One girl
in the middle of the room looks like she might burst into tears; a
teaching assistant feels her forehead and decides to send her home.


Full story:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/education/ucla-s-new-school-of-thought-16747#


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