"Internationals Network for Public Schools: Opening Doors to the American Dream"
The Internationals Network for Public Schools (INPS) has schools in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area that serve a diverse group of ELLs, with a student body made up of immigrants from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Though the students’ native languages vary, the curriculum engenders positive recognition of home languages and cultures through projects that incorporate reading and writing in students’ native languages. The schools employ content area literacy instruction so that all teachers are engaged in students’ English learning, and students are grouped in clusters that work with the same teachers over 1-2 years. The schools also provide significant professional development for teachers, through inter-visitations, a video-library of effective practice and online database of resources, and special funding for teacher collaboration in curriculum development. The drop-out rates at the New York schools are below 10 percent, and 70-100 percent (varies by school) of students pass state exams (INPS website).
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"SFUSD Bilingual Education: Lau v. Nichols"
One of the major U.S. Supreme Court rulings regarding the rights of language minority students was Lau v. Nichols, initiated in 1971 by roughly 1,800 Chinese students, claiming that the San Francisco Unified School District failed to meet their linguistic needs, denying them an equal education. In 1974, the Supreme Court overruled the federal courts, thus entitling students to special assistance through means of bilingual programs, allowing them to participate equally in school. As a result, bilingual education programs began being implemented in schools across San Francisco.
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