Teaching America’s New Majority

Washington Post
June 1, 2012
Maggie Severns

A couple weeks ago, the Census bureau announced that minority babies made up the majority of births in the United States in 2011. I wrote an opinion piece for today’s Washington Post about why this symbolic shift should be a wake-up call for the public school system: Student demographics are changing, but policies revolving around how we instruct English language learners have yet to catch up.

Read the full article here.

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