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Friday, October 6, 2006
The Hispanic Student Boom
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A story out of our Washington bureau reports Georgia’s Hispanic student population increased 390 percent between 1994 and 2004, from 19,000 to 93,000.
This is pretty obvious if you’ve spent time in metro systems such as DeKalb, Hall, Gwinnett, Cobb and Cherokee. The Latino explosion has fundamentally changed education in many schools, adding language and cultural barriers to a mix that also includes all the challenges related to poverty.
Teachers who work in schools with Latino students, tell us about your experience. What works? What doesn’t? How long does it take kids to get on grade level? Do you envision some of your students graduating? Do Latino kids sit with other Latino kids in the cafeteria? Parents with kids in schools with large Latino populations, how is this affecting your child’s education? Does your child have Latino friends?
Okay people, we’re not here to debate immigration policy. There are other blogs for that. Please be civil. PLEASE. Later today, I am speaking to journalists from small-market papers about education blogging. I’m going to call up this site. Please don’t make me wish I didn’t!
