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| Title | Article: Pilot Program for Recent Immigrants |
| Body | From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/AR2007032601813.html Montgomery Aims to Fill In Gaps for Teen Immigrants By Daniel de Vise, Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Gerber Lisama started school at age 6. At 7, he was working in Salvadoran cornfields. Toiling in the morning, studying in the afternoon, he needed three years to complete first grade. Now 17, Lisama is a freshman at Gaithersburg High School. But after a year in the United States, he speaks almost no English, writes choppily in Spanish and cannot compute beyond simple arithmetic. Yesterday, Montgomery County school officials announced a pilot program tailored to the specific needs of students such as Lisama: recent immigrants who have had little formal education although they are reaching the age when most native-born Americans graduate from high school. The program, Students Engaged in Pathways to Achievement, would begin this summer at Wheaton High School, a campus serving a large immigrant population, and focus initially on about 15 students in their late teens. Students would be taught functional English, with an emphasis on career-specific vocabulary. Other classes would explore careers, including horticulture, cosmetology and hospitality. Students also would be taught to read and write fluently in their native Spanish. Read the entire article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/AR2007032601813.html . |
| Source | The Washington Post |
| Inputdate | 2007-05-13 09:28:52 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-05-13 09:28:52 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-05-14 00:00:00 |
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