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| Title | Article: Dallas Immigrant Secondary Students Will Learn Subjects in Spanish |
| Body | From http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/DN-prospanish_26met.ART0.State.Edition1.36ed4db.html DISD tries online courses for students deficient in English Immigrant secondary students will learn subjects in Spanish By STELLA M. CHÁVEZ December 26, 2007 Beginning in January, students in the Dallas Independent School District will be able to take courses such as algebra, biology, geometry, chemistry and world history online and in Spanish. The approach is unlike anything tried before in Texas school districts, which traditionally teach older immigrant students in English. Bilingual education and the use of Spanish has long been the practice in elementary schools, but the dearth of qualified bilingual teachers has made it nearly impossible to replicate those efforts at the secondary level. "They've had nothing like this before," said Felipe Alanis, associate dean for the division of continuing education at the University of Texas at Austin, which is spearheading this initiative dubbed LUCHA, the Spanish word for fight. "It's either sink or swim, so it's very difficult" for immigrant students. Read the entire article at http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/DN-prospanish_26met.ART0.State.Edition1.36ed4db.html . |
| Source | The Dallas Morning News |
| Inputdate | 2007-12-30 01:56:35 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-12-31 00:00:00 |
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