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Latinx

Districts Adopt Mexican Curriculum to Help Hispanic Students

Several school districts in the South and West that serve large populations of Spanish-speaking immigrant students are moving to align their middle- and high-school curriculae with what is being taught in Mexico.

November 4, 2007

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Districts Adopt Mexican Curriculum to Help Hispanic Students

Several school districts in the South and West that serve large populations of Spanish-speaking immigrant students are moving to align their middle- and high-school curriculae with what is being taught in Mexico.

November 4, 2007

Latinx

New Jersey Eyes Ways to Improve Latino Services

Language translators would be made available in all state departments and the state would recruit teachers from Spain and Puerto Rico under recommendations delivered Monday to New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine.

October 15, 2007

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Perspectives: Houston, We Have a Problem Over the “Ghetto Handbook”

Not since the Oakland, Calif. School Board voted in 1996 to recognize Ebonics as a language to be factored into its speakers’ English classes — sparking a national debate — has there been so much focus on African-American speech patterns.

October 8, 2007

African-American

Education for a Democracy: Money, Green Card Not Required

Today, in the midst of increasing political measures to deny basic rights and services to immigrants, we must remember that Latina/o students are part of a growing movement for social justice. The U.S. government and America’s schools are doing little to build on these students’ strengths, invest in their futures or ensure their place in institutions of higher education.

September 27, 2007

Leadership & Policy

At Presstime

JACKSON TO HEAD RENSSELAER

July 14, 2007

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Bilingual back talk: educators, politicians look for countermeasures to California initiative – Proposition 227

SAN FRANCISCO Just days after California voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to outlaw bilingual education, civil rights groups have filed suit to challenge the new law and school districts are finding ways around it.

July 12, 2007

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Colorado researchers seek more effective public policy role – Latino/a Research and Policy Center, University of Colorado-Denver

DENVER In perhaps the first event of its kind, educators and researchers from the University of Colorado-Denver’s Latino/a Research and Policy Center held a symposium on legislation, research, and its impact on the Latino community. The symposium was held in early January at the State Capitol on the opening day of the 1998 state legislative session.

July 11, 2007

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California has another proposition – Ron Unz Initiative to ban bilingual instruction

This One Would Prohibit Bilingual Education

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

You say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY

BRONX, NY A controversy that erupted this spring over bilingual education at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has languished in the courts and turned into a war of words in the media.

July 11, 2007

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Sidetracked by pundocracy: speaking of education – Ebonics controversy of bilingualism in Oakland, California

To let the commentators tell it, educators in the city of Oakland have gone mad. They are teaching Black English as a second language and are seeking federal funds to do so, and depending on which “Black leader” you quote, this is a “bad joke” or a “cruel hoax” on the African American community. Coming a few days before Christmas, and a few weeks after affirmative action stumbled with the passage of Proposition 209, all one could say was, “Bah, humbug.”

July 4, 2007

STEM

Resolution of the Board of Education adopting the report and recommendations of the African American task force; A policy statement and directing the superintendent of schools to devise a program to improve the English language acquisition and application

Whereas, numerous validated scholarly studies demonstrate that African-Americ-an students as a part of their culture and history [as] an African people possess and utilize a language described in various scholarly approaches as “Ebonics” (literally “Blank sounds”) or “Pan-African Communication Behaviors” or “African Language Systems”; and

July 4, 2007