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A short piece about Mass state exam and immigrant students: ----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Wunsch To: care-strategy@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:12 PM Subject: [care-strategy] immigrant kids and mcas I thought people would be interested in this comment by a teacher in a Boston middle school. <<This year they screwed with the immigrants by putting in ALL stories that require certain words that were not in the mandated word-to-word Spanish-English dictionaries: the first selection was about a vulture ("vulture" not in dictionary). The second was a poem that spoke of the person's bosom ("bosom" not in dictionary). The third was about Robin Hood and his merry band of outlaws ("outlaw" not in dictionary!) >> To post to this list, send message to: care-strategy@yahoogroups.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS a.. Visit your group "care-strategy" on the web. b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: care-strategy-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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