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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

BOSTON — Katie Cardamone teaches second grade in the Mendon-Upton Regional School District, about 40 miles southwest of Boston. Barely 1 percent of Mendon’s population is Latino and about 2 percent of Upton’s is, but Cardamone teaches her entire class in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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

ED Surge

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.

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When black history isn’t relegated to a single month

The Hechinger Report

When slavery is covered in history class, the teaching of black benign servitude too often goes along with ideas that the Ku Klux Klan is a Christian organization exhibiting principles like loving thy neighbor. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history.

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When black history isn’t relegated to a single month

The Hechinger Report

When slavery is covered in history class, the teaching of black benign servitude too often goes along with ideas that the Ku Klux Klan is a Christian organization exhibiting principles like loving thy neighbor. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history.

History 48