Every time I see a fat ‘C’ on my Spanish test, I’m reminded how much easier it would have come to me if I was 5, and not 23. I joke to my classmates that my 2-year-old daughter has retained more Spanish by watching Dora, than I have in two years of Spanish classes. While [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Language is Power, Power is White
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
How they got here: Reclassification and the ELL losers
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Having grown up in Zeeland, MI, neighboring city to the famous Dutch Dancers of Holland, I was very sheltered from the ELL epidemic when attending grade school. Therefore, when I began to see the number of enrolled ELL students in the past 5 years—since my graduating high school, I was eager to learn how to [...]
