Schools In Transition
Students, Parents Adjust To Change
Posted: November 27, 2010 at 5:21 a.m.
Jana McVay, left, U.S. history teacher with Springdale Har-Ber High School’s language academy, goes through a gestures exercise Nov. 17 with her class. The exercise is just one of the tools she teaches English as a second language students to help them remember vocabulary.
Photographs of the Oakdale Middle School eighth-grade cheerleading team illustrate how an influx of minorities has changed Northwest Arkansas school districts in recent years. Since 2008, each year’s photo shows a team with more Hispanic members than the last.
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Source: Staff Report
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