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Higher Education Reform

- by Mary Lebowitz

education reformThere has been so significantly clamoring recently over reform in the education technique that it tends to make my head spin attempting to take in the whole conversation and attempt to recognize what specifically is becoming mentioned. State of Our Cities: Profiles of Education Performance About the Nation offers comparable education data on much more than one hundred cities across the nation and permits customers to make comparisons at the state, national, and global level so that mayors, policymakers, and the public can engage far more vigorously in education decision-creating in their regional communities.

Tackling big education problems largely took a backseat until Snyder spent most of 2015 and half of 2016 convincing the Republican-controlled Legislature to rescue Detroit Public Schools from its $617 million debt, which posed a threat to the state’s credit rating.

This post has been updated: a) to clarify a point about teacher-salary incentives for preserving …

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WESTE Bilingual Education (050)
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WESTE Bilingual Education (050)

- by Mary Lebowitz

The Bilingual Department offers help and guidance for children with a language other than English. Now at Cesar Chavez Elementary College, which she has led for 15 years, she has helped develop a curriculum that teaches students in English and Spanish. English was not always the language of instruction in American schools. The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness democracy economic chance and higher-high quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities.

The students who were dominant in a foreign language weren’t however comfortably bilingual they have been just starting to discover English. Even so only 23 % of initial-generation immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries – these that began understanding later in life, say they speak English extremely properly.

Some had been foreign-language dominant and other individuals were English natives. Standard programs for English-language learners, or ELLs, focus …

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