{"id":627,"date":"2012-06-12T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=627"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:58:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:58:24","slug":"teaching-americas-new-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/06\/12\/teaching-americas-new-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching America&#8217;s New Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-628\" title=\"Agu and Lianna\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna.jpg 1166w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-160x131.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-800x656.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-1020x836.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-960x787.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-240x197.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-375x307.jpg 375w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/Agu-and-Lianna-520x426.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Washington Post<br \/>\nJune 1, 2012<br \/>\nMaggie Severns<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s <em>Washington Post<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/illinoiss-lessons-in-teaching-preschool-english-as-a-second-language\/2012\/05\/31\/gJQAorqQ5U_story.html\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Washington Post about why this symbolic shift should be a wake-up call for the public school system: Student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/06\/12\/teaching-americas-new-majority\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching America&#8217;s New Majority<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}