Archive for the ‘Immigrant issues’ Category
English in demand for community of immigrants
Friday, February 20, 2009 7:07 No CommentsMassachusetts: Brazilian immigrants make up about a third of the population of Framingham, Massaschusetts. Many newspapers, radio stations and businesses cater to the immigrant’s needs. But the Brazilians still want desperately, to learn English. Eduardo de Oliveira of Feet in Two Worlds reports that the town’s English classes are so popular that you need to [...]
In School for the First Time, Teenage Immigrants Struggle
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:29 No CommentsNew York: Hidden among the nearly 150,000 students across New York struggling to learn English are an estimated 15,100 who have had little or no formal schooling and are often illiterate in their native languages. New York is one of the only states to identify these difficult cases, classifying them as Students with Interrupted Formal [...]