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Tweet Tennessee – US: Shuler Pelham spent Wednesday morning trying to explain to a 15-year-old Mexican boy why he should come to school. The teen arrived in Nashville in March, attended one week at Overton High in August and then disappeared. A truancy court ordered him back to Overton. Read more on this here. Sphere: [...] Tweet United States: Richard Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit organization created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. This, notes the Washington Post, appeared on the institute’s website. It is long, but apparently worth the time. [...] Tweet United States: Michelle Rhee became a public face of education reform during her tenure as head of the District of Columbia’s schools. However, notes the Associated Press, she found out that reform isn’t always popular, especially when it involves school closings and teacher layoffs. Read more on this here… Sphere: Related [...] Tweet The Ottowa Citizen notes that when Awo Farah arrived in Canada from Djibouti in 2001 to seek a better education, the nine-year-old Grade 5 student couldn’t speak English. Eight years later, it’s amazing how her life has developed … all for the positive. Farah would substitute the word “crazy” for “amazing” to describe [...] Tweet It’s a new style of teaching and reaching out to English-language learners. It uses charts and chants and turns students into “super scientists” and “experts,” putting them in control of their education, proponents say. The teaching style is known as Guided Language Acquisition Development, or “GLAD,” and Newhall School District employed the program [...] Tweet The AmerAsian School in Okinawa (AASO) is unique in that it enrolls almost exclusively biracial American-Japanese students, and has developed an original bilingual, bicultural “double” curriculum. Founded in 1998 by five Okinawan mothers, the privately run, K-9 school of 80 students contends that “Amerasian” children have the right to study in both Japanese and [...] Tweet Way back in 1985, a Cambodian refugee enrolled in the School District of Philadelphia was mistakenly placed in a special education classroom, based on the results of a test indicating that he was mentally handicapped. But the test had been conducted in English, which was not the refugee student’s native language. This student, whose [...] Tweet California: English-language proficiency is a concern for a growing number of the U.S. residents, according to New America Media. The foreign-born population in the United States increased by 57 percent between 1990 and 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Moreover, the number of adults ages 65 or older is projected to more than [...] Tweet South Korea and America: Are you looking for a teaching job? Try going abroad, advises the Whitworthian. According to a recent article on the Florida Times-Union’s Web site, the “frightening job market is encouraging many college graduates to look abroad for work.” The article also states that “more students are inquiring about teaching overseas.” [...] Tweet A foreign exchange student’s complaints over living conditions he encountered with a host family in Norwood Young America have prompted a state investigation that could lead to new legislation to safeguard visiting students. The Norwegian student complained that he had lent his host family $1,000 for groceries and their son’s acting classes, amazingly he [...]  |
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