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United States: The United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) seeks to tap private sector ingenuity and capacity by partnering with the private sector to create an online English language learning and literacy series for economically disadvantaged youth outside the United States that will be made available without charge.
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To help both immigrant and native students realize their potential, a dual-immersion system should be incorporated in America’s schools, notes the Dallas News. In a typical dual-immersion system, equal numbers of Spanish- and English-speaking elementary school students are placed in the same classroom and taught in both languages, usually for a period of six to [...]

United States: Joseph Salmons has always been struck by the pervasiveness of the argument. In his visits across Wisconsin, in many newspaper letters to the editor, and in the national debates raging over modern immigration, he encounters the same refrain: “My great, great grandparents came to America and quickly learned English to survive. Why can’t [...]