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

ED Surge

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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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

The Hechinger Report

David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education. Before the English-only instruction bill’s passage in 2002, the most common way schools served students learning English was through a program called transitional bilingual education.

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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.

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When black history isn’t relegated to a single month

The Hechinger Report

Higher Education. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history. The pushback to the ethnic studies and multicultural education movements is about protecting white history. Read more about education in New Orleans. Sign up for our newsletter.

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When black history isn’t relegated to a single month

The Hechinger Report

Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history. The pushback to the ethnic studies and multicultural education movements is about protecting white history. Read more about education in New Orleans.

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