Mixture of Spoken Languages

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20110129/NEWS01/101290019/St-Cloud-schools-see-mixture-of-spoken-languages

In the article by the St. Cloud Times, the number of spoken languages in the district is on the rise. It has increased since the 2005-2006 school year. The district is adding more teachers and doing more with non-English speaking kids. I think that this is great. They are working with these kids, and as we learned this week about the global achievement gap. I think that this step is a great one, proving that we are at least trying to make that gap a little bit smaller. It will take time and more money and effort from teachers. But the district is at least noticing the problem and addressing it and taking it head on. All of these steps are positive and hopefully the outcome for this program will be a huge success. But time will be the real test for this new and budding program.