ELT World North America

Arizona: Pistor Middle School eighth-graders Brianna Rios, 13, Ciana Galvez, 14, and Lupita Mendiaz, 13, laugh as they are videotaped in Tucson recently to teach people in Ecuador about hip hop dancing. The bilingual dance videos will be sent to their adopted community in Ecuador. The program was approved as an O Ambassador Club, which [...]

Arizona: Arizona education gets high marks for holding schools accountable and for rigorous student standards, but once again the state pulls a failing grade in financing schools. The assessment is contained in a report called “Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population,” released today by Education Week magazine.
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Arizona: Salmons, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has done a study that indicates that many German immigrants who arrived in the 1800s didn’t learn English and that their children and grandchildren often didn’t learn English, either. Other research shows that Latino immigrants in more recent decades are learning English quickly and that, by [...]

Arizona: Daniella Aguado wanted to be an english teacher ever since high school, and at 21 years old, she has succeeded. Success was never a foreign concept for Daniella - especially at Mountain View High School in Mesa. “I had a wonderful experience in high school. I love studying,” says Daniella “I had good grades.” [...]

Arizona: A federal court hearing could ease pressure on Tucson-area schools teaching English to non-English speakers. The state Legislature has mandated four hours of segregated English immersion classes, which costs school districts money they say they don’t have. The Legislature earlier this year allotted $40 million for its four-hour immersion plan. But the Sunnyside and [...]

Arizona: Maria Tomaine didn’t want to be the only person in her home not to speak fluent English. So Tomaine took advantage of a free program her children’s school district offers because it believes parents who can speak English can more comfortably navigate the educational system and help their children with their homework. Tomaine was [...]