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

ED Surge

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

The Hechinger Report

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.

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When black history isn’t relegated to a single month

The Hechinger Report

High school students hold a banner while marching to the South Boulder Recreation Center to vote and turn in election ballots in early voting in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday October 25, 2018. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history.

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