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Lety Vargas, a newly hired English Language teacher at Russellville Elementary School, in Russellville, Ala., coaches small groups of students on her first day of school, Aug. 9, 2022. For years, rural Russellville's Central American population has grown, with immigrants moving to town to work at the local chicken processing plant. Now, some Spanish-speaking adults who graduated from that same school system are returning to teach students, hoping to give today's English learners a better experience. (Rebecca Griesbach/AL.com via AP)

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How one small town is teaching English to kids of immigrants
By REBECCA GRIESBACH - AL.com
Wed,10/19/22-9:13AM , 120 Reads
RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (AP) — As part of an exercise to help the class learn English, a third grader pulled a block from a Jenga tower and read aloud a question written on one side. “Where,” the boy read, then slowly sounded out the other words: “Where would you like to visit?”
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Lilianna Naizer-Baldwin,10, foreground center, raises her hand during her Spanish class at the New Mexico International School in Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday, May 27, 2022. Mary Baldwin a psychology intern at UNM Hospital Health science Center immigrated to the U.S. form Honduras when she was 10. Now her daughter Lilianna is the same age, and thanks to the dual language program she's fluent enough to cook banana-leaf-wrapped tamales with her Spanish-speaking grandmother. New Mexico is the only state in the country where the right to learn in Spanish is laid out the constitution. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

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Most Hispanic US state weighs benefits of language programs
By CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press / Report for America
Sat,06/11/22-12:10PM , 133 Reads
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jacqueline Powell and her fourth grade classmates toiled over pencil and paper to write a letter in Spanish about what they did in class this year.
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Copies of the book on the governance of Chinese President Xi Jinping are displayed with booklets promoting Xinjiang during a news conference by Shohrat Zakir, chairman of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, at the State Council Information Office in Beijing on July 30, 2019. As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison in 2021 for textbooks drawn in part from historical resistance movements that had once been sanctioned by the ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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A Uyghur gets death sentence, as China bans once OK'd books
By HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press
Mon,01/31/22-11:02PM , 187 Reads
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks drawn in part from historical resistance movements that had once been sanctioned by the ruling Communist Party.
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Immigrant parents complain of language barriers in schools
By CLAUDIA LAUER AND VANESSA A. ALVAREZ - Associated Press
Tue,11/23/21-6:08AM , 63 Reads
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia parents who don't speak English say they've long been excluded from parts of their children's education because of language barriers, an issue that's only been exacerbated by the pandemic and the return to in-person learning.
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