[AAACE-NLA] FW: English Instruction Touted for Immigrants

[David Collings]

Colleagues,

The following information is from a Washington Post article sent to me by
David Rosen.  The links below will take you to the full article.

David


David Collings
AAACE-NLA Moderator
david at collings.com

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English Instruction Touted for Immigrants
Fourfold Increase In Spending Urged

By Karin Brulliard
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 1, 2007; Page A18

Spending on English instruction must be quadrupled to more than $4 billion a
year for the next six years to make legal and illegal adult immigrants
proficient in skills crucial to their assimilation and the economic future
of a country whose population is increasingly foreign-born, a new national
report says.


Full article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101
570.html

Alternate smaller URL to the same article:
http://tinyurl.com/27yejr