Bilingual Education
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--In the second part of a week-long series on bilingual education, NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on a school district in Orlando, Florida, that offers two different approaches to students who speak Spanish at home. Depending upon their needs, they are placed either on a fast track, known as `English immersion;' or on a slower track, called `bilingual education.' For at least three academic years, students in the bilingual program spend half of their school day learning basic reading and writing skills in Spanish, and the other half learning subjects in English.
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