山西省山阴县2014高考英语阅读理解（2）.doc

山西省山阴县 2014 高考英语阅读理解( 2 )及答案【广东省广州市调研测试】 As thousands munities in the USA — especially in the South — became booming gateways for immigrant families from Central and South America during the 1990s and the early years of the new century, public schools struggled with the unfamiliar task of serving the large numbers of English learners arriving in their classrooms. Education programs needed to be built from scratch. “ We had no teaching resources suitable for English learners here before. We had to develop them all ourselves, ” a Texas principal said. Throughout the country, districts had to train their own teachers to teach English to non-native speakers or recruit teachers from elsewhere. School staff members had to figure out how municate with parents who spoke no English. But even as immigration has slowed or stopped in many places, and instructional programs for English-learners have matured, serving immigrant families and their children remains a work in progress in many public schools, especially those munities that are skeptical, or sometimes ing, to the ers. One of the biggest challenges educators face, municating effectively with parents who don ’t speak English — an issue that, in part, has contributed to plaints of discrimination by Latino students in some cities. “ The parents ’ role is very important for the ess of these students, but it's also one of the most diffi