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| Title | Bilingual Education Lags for Vietnamese |
| Body | From: NCELA According to the 2000 census, Asian-Americans are the second-fastest growing population in the United States. However, Lena Warmack reports in the Star-Telegram that, while bilingual education for Spanish-speakers is abundant, for Asian students the same is not true. This is happening because school districts face the following problems: (1) they cannot find teachers who can speak languages such as Hindi, Cambodian, Thai or Vietnamese; (2) they do not have enough bilingual candidates applying for teaching positions; and (3) those candidates that do apply have bilingual oral skills, but lack reading and writing skills. In Texas, the results are that, even though school districts are required to offer bilingual instruction when elementary grade-level classes have 20 or more students that are English-language learners and speak the same language, many of the school districts are forced to seek exemption from this requirement on a near yearly basis. To read the entire article, visit: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/6857170.htm |
| Source | Star Telegram, TX |
| Inputdate | 2003-10-03 11:40:00 |
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