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| Contentid | 7035 |
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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Article: Language Immersion Prototype Stumbling |
| Body | From http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/jbksepbPkIdQuvCiaWqSveDr?format=standard Language Immersion Prototype Stumbling In a Decade, Most Have Left Maryland Program By Valerie Strauss Monday, November 26, 2007 In September 1996, Montgomery County started what it promoted as the first Mandarin Chinese immersion program for elementary students in the country. The program at Potomac Elementary School became a national model, and acclaim and fame followed. Today, the original class of first-graders are seniors preparing for college. Many continued to study Chinese in middle and high school, but most dropped out in recent years -- a handful as late as this fall -- citing confusion in the curriculum and difficulties with the instructor. Now, just three of the first 22 students continue to study Chinese at the cluster's high school. Montgomery officials say attrition is expected in any new program. But parents and students say there are problems with how the immersion classes are taught. They say there is inadequate coordination among grades and uneven assessment systems, problems that could have been avoided. More important, they say, officials are doing little to remedy the problems for the hundreds of younger students of Chinese. Read the entire article at http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/jbksepbPkIdQuvCiaWqSveDr?format=standard . |
| Source | Washington Post |
| Inputdate | 2007-12-02 11:46:41 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-12-02 11:46:41 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-12-03 00:00:00 |
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