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Christian Science Monitor: How one small Midwest town has turned immigration into positive change
How one small Midwest town has turned immigration into positive change
In parts of the Midwest, floods of immigrants are reshaping the culture. The influx is presenting challenges, but some towns have made strides toward striking a balance between old and new.
It’s Thursday morning, and in one classroom fifth-graders cluster in small groups, studying mathematics. Only today it’s matematicas, and everyone is speaking Spanish.
Ten-year-old Joshua Perez stares at a whiteboard, confronting the mysteries of place value. One classmate, a girl with long brown hair and a stern gaze, points to a row of numbers and empty boxes.
“Donde pone los centenas?” she asks, her precise Spanish betraying a strong Iowa accent. “Where do the hundreds go?”
Joshua hesitates, then reaches up and scrawls a blue C in the hundreds box. “Si,” the girl says. “Muy bien.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0314/How-one-small-Midwest-town-has-turned-immigration-into-positive-change
In parts of the Midwest, floods of immigrants are reshaping the culture. The influx is presenting challenges, but some towns have made strides toward striking a balance between old and new.
It’s Thursday morning, and in one classroom fifth-graders cluster in small groups, studying mathematics. Only today it’s matematicas, and everyone is speaking Spanish.
Ten-year-old Joshua Perez stares at a whiteboard, confronting the mysteries of place value. One classmate, a girl with long brown hair and a stern gaze, points to a row of numbers and empty boxes.
“Donde pone los centenas?” she asks, her precise Spanish betraying a strong Iowa accent. “Where do the hundreds go?”
Joshua hesitates, then reaches up and scrawls a blue C in the hundreds box. “Si,” the girl says. “Muy bien.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0314/How-one-small-Midwest-town-has-turned-immigration-into-positive-change
Nice article.
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