Just over ten years ago, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) penned a 40-page “Dear Colleage” letter that outlined public education’s legal obligations to “English learners” (EL), or emergent multilingual students. Just this month, the current administration sent a clear message of its own by formally rescinding that letter. It remains available “for historical purposes only.”
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Monolingual in a Multilingual World? Let’s Talk (and Maybe Sing) about It
Some experts believe New York City is home to as many as 800 languages, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. But whether you work at a small rural library or in the middle of a bustling city like New York, at least some of your patrons speak another language – maybe even exclusively.