FYI: NCLB and native Alaskan languages

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With thanks to Wang Shuhan for this tip...

FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS-MINER
"Native Language Programs Running Afoul of No Child Left Behind"

Some western Alaska schools that for decades have taught and helped preserve
the Native Yupik language are in a quandary over meeting new testing
requirements under No Child Left Behind. Third-grade children taught almost
exclusively in the Yupik language may be required to pass federal tests
written in English. In Alaska, where Natives speak 20 aboriginal languages
and dialects, meeting a uniform federal law could ultimately be too
expensive, conflict with Native cultural traditions, as well as the local
control that the rural villages treasure.

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