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The power of language and culture in our children's education
- 11-01-2010
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Blog by Donna Nevel/Huffington Post
The value and importance of integrating our children's languages and cultures into their education deserves greater recognition. This is particularly true in the context of today's increasing emphasis, locally and nationally, on standardized testing and on students becoming numbers rather than individuals who are part of families and communities. Dual Language programs, a form of bilingual education, are one of the ways to preserve and honor students' languages and cultural identities. Such programs are more important today, not only because of the challenges we face in public education, but, also, given current realities of increased xenophobia, the push for "English only" in Arizona and elsewhere, and attempts to deny immigrant communities basic human and civil rights. (more…)
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