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Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2004
This article discusses the efforts made by urban schools in upgrading their translation services. The New York City school system is setting up, for the first time, a centralized office to routinely translate school information into eight different languages. Factors fueling the attention include a rising number of students with limited English…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Limited English Speaking, Translation, Immigrants