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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a slightly different take on this.  Something close to 25 percent of Miner students tested as proficient in ELAs last year.  Why would introducing Mandarin, as opposed to more intensive interventions focused on mastering basic skills in English, be a good use of resources?  [/quote]

Can't help but think that you are then among those who - on other threads - stress how learning other languages supports (not diminishes!) reading and writing proficiency. I cannot think of a good reason why that logic would suddenly be reversed in the context of a few more challenges (not that many at Miner btw).
This reminds me of those ill-advised trans to bring play-based and exploratory programs such as Tools of the Mind to well off early childhood programs while keeping the less well off youngsters locked into desks to drill numbers and letters, thinking they should do "early literacy" instead. Well, research proved those assumptions wrong entirely. Play/project-based curricula turned out to be even more beneficial at less well off schools than they were proving to be at better off schools.[/quote]

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