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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. “There are thousands of studies,” said Louisa Moats, an education consultant and researcher who has been teaching and studying reading since the 1970s. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.”

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

He brought in more than $15 million in federal and state funding for Race to the Top projects, magnet elementary themes and preschool. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Even A-rated Kirkpatrick Elementary, next door to Clarksdale Collegiate, is hurting for funds.

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