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The US Is the Fifth-Largest Spanish-Speaking Country. Where Are Our Bilingual Teachers?

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Gauna was given a warning: Bilingual education wouldn’t be a viable career option in the long term. The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls the “The Leaking Spanish Bilingual Education Teacher Pipeline.”

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Religion Is a Taboo Topic. I Discuss It in My Classroom Anyway.

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By addressing these topics, we validate their experiences and foster a more inclusive and engaging educational environment. My mentors warnings, echoed by other educators, instilled in me a fear of mentioning religious or political terms in the classroom. The limitations of avoiding taboo topics became glaringly obvious.