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| Title | Poll: Language a Barrier for Latinos in Schools |
| Body | From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/ap_on_re_us/us_ap_univision_poll_hispanics_language_barriers Poll: Language a barrier for Latinos in schools By HOPE YEN and CHRISTINE ARMARIO August 5, 2010 An Associated Press-Univision poll highlights the language and cultural obstacles for the nation's Latinos, who lag behind others when it comes to graduating from high school. The findings also raise questions about whether English-immersion does more to assimilate or isolate — a heated debate that has divided states, academics and even the U.S. Supreme Court. Arizona recently ordered its schools to remove teachers with heavy foreign accents from English-language instruction, while the Obama administration is seeking to push more multilingual teaching in K-12 classrooms. Read the complete article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/ap_on_re_us/us_ap_univision_poll_hispanics_language_barriers |
| Source | Yahoo! News |
| Inputdate | 2010-08-21 04:24:39 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-08-23 00:00:00 |
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