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Students who don’t speak English bring challenges

Friday, January 9, 2009 5:24 1 Comment

Wyoming: The Kelloggsville Early Childhood Center has reached a tipping point. The school now has more students who need to be taught English than those who don’t. The students come from homes where any number of Hispanic dialects are used, or where Vietnamese, Chinese, Bosnian or Italian are spoken.
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Broadband makes tiny town an English-teaching hub

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 0:09 1 Comment

Wyoming and Korea: Ten Sleep, population 350, is just as connected as any place these days, and home to a new company that is outsourcing jobs not from the United States to the Far East, but in the opposite direction. Eleutian Technology hires people in towns across northern Wyoming to teach English to Koreans of [...]

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Wyoming: Native American tribe focuses on the young to keep language alive

Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:39 1 Comment

Wyoming: Today only about 200 Arapaho speakers are still alive, and tribal leaders at Wind River, Wyoming’s only Indian reservation, fear their language will not survive. As part of an intensifying effort to save that language, this tribe of 8,791, known as the Northern Arapaho, recently opened a new school where students will be taught [...]

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