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

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In the paper , Gauna and her fellow researchers identified major life experiences that bilingual Latino teachers said made their paths to becoming educators all the more difficult. Gauna is an associate professor of bilingual/ESL and multicultural education at the University of Houston-Clear Lake’s College of Education. “A

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

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When I started teaching Arabic in a public school, I inherited the curriculum and materials from the previous teacher. However, over time, I began questioning the wisdom of completely excluding religion, politics and other "taboo" topics from my teaching. The limitations of avoiding taboo topics became glaringly obvious.