Zip code, race, and home language continue to be the greatest predictors of the quality of education a child will receive, and this is a travesty.
An English learner's entrance into the public school system usually starts with a home language survey, which asks whether another language is used at home and which language the child speaks most frequently.
Good as they are, the English language home pages available in Japan add up to a mere drop in the ocean compared with the amount of information that is now on line in Japanese.
But that's the extent of my unpleasant scrapes in a dozen visits that have taken me to home-stay language courses, traditional Mayan markets, mummy museums, cenotes (surreal limestone sinkholes in which you can swim) and even Zapatista zones in the south.
Even now, Sheffield University's Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, home of the three editors of this dictionary, is recording a newly dying trade, mining.
Although he is a Welsh speaker and his wife Lisa has learned the language, Mr Jones said their children learned English first because that was the language at home.
Kenya has 42 distinct ethnic groups each with its own language and home territory but no single group has enough votes to dominate the rest of the country.
Because I have a Spanish-speaking mom and learned the language at home and at summer camps, I wanted to do theater in Spanish or in a mix of both English and Spanish.
But her Italian-born parents clung to their culture, speaking Italian at home and reading Italian-language newspapers.
Spanish is by far the most popular non-English language spoken at home with roughly 34 million speakers nationwide.
She said French is a second language in her home and that her kids are learning to speak it, so being in this country at this time is good for her family.
At home, satellite television beams foreign-language programming at children whose German is already imperfect.
School-age children who speak a language other than English at home are one of the fastest-growing populations.
Almost one in four pupils in Arizona speaks a language other than English at home - and a large majority of these are Spanish speakers.
The states with the largest percentage of citizens speaking a language other than English at home are California, New Mexico, Texas, New York and Arizona.
There were very few English-language books in my childhood home.
Her grandmother, who lived in Juarez, Mexico, after being kicked out of the United States for smuggling drugs, encouraged her to get a good education and speak English, her second language, outside of the home.
This, after all, is a country where one in five people - 19% - speak a language other than English in their home.
Aside from the basics - utilities, schools, clean streets, efficient public transport - at which Tokyo traditionally excels, the Japanese megapolis provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf, home helpers for the elderly, and subsidies for single-parent households.
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In trying to save their home, the biggest problem for immigrants is the language barrier and lack of information in accessible languages.
As with any Antarctic winter crew, we have had our fair share of challenges - language difficulties, cultural misunderstandings, problems from home and accidents on the ice.
They understand the need for their youngsters to master this language, even if it is not spoken at home.
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
The home side had Danny Seaborne sent off for foul and abusive language in the first half, but they still forced Vale defender Luke Prosser to put through his own net, an own goal which eventually settled the game.
It was such a powerful, emotional experience that Davis is driven to use flashcards at home with her children and do whatever it takes to preserve the language.
His enthusiastic immersion as a boy in Catalan culture speaking, reading and writing a language that was officially banished under Franco to the hearth and home, wandering in the rugged, piny Catalan landscape reached its natural apogee in preserving, lovingly, what Catalunya tasted like.
We have been spoiled by our home business market of more than 300 million people who speak the same language, largely embrace the same culture, abide by the same laws, use the same currency and have freedom of movement and disposable income.
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In other circumstances, Mr Bolton's fiery language about the UN might make him a politically unacceptable candidate at home.
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