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California voters poised to gut English-only instruction law

The Hechinger Report

Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. SAN DIEGO, Calif. I cried the first time I took a test. It’s not the same.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

ED Surge

One of the places that I first encountered where I was like, ‘Oh, there's some kind of interesting teaching and learning here,’ was a charter school that I visited in Southern California, and they had adopted Google Docs relatively early and were making really great use of it. Teachers sort of have two spaces that they learn.

Artifacts 101
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Bilingual battle brewing in California…again

The Hechinger Report

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.