[lg policy] Boston: The shame of our city's language instruction

Harold Schiffman hfsclpp at GMAIL.COM
Fri Sep 4 13:57:21 UTC 2009


Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


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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