The Education Report New language immersion school, a year later

The Education Report

New language immersion school, a year later

By Katy Murphy
Monday, June 21st, 2010 at 9:08 am in English learners, elementary schools,families, small schools, students
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Last fall I visited Oakland’s Melrose Leadership Academy, which had just begun a new Spanish-English immersion program, starting with a kindergarten class of about 35 students. When the teacher said “stand up” in Spanish (90 percent of kindergarten instruction is in Spanish), at least a third of the children — most of the native English-speakers — sat on the rug, looking around in