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TitleInterview: Prizing English Language Learners
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From http://tinyurl.com/yz2ozog

Ted Appel of Luther Burbank High School in California sees students who are still learning English as an asset.

More than half of his school's students are English language learners. About nine in ten come from low-income families. Though some schools might see such students as a drag on their test scores, Luther Burbank High welcomes them from neighborhoods far from its own. For Appel, such students enrich the school in ways standard school rating systems cannot begin to capture.

Read an interview with Mr. Appel at http://tinyurl.com/yz2ozog
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