Article: LACK OF BOOKS STYMIES MANY BILINGUAL PUPILS

GEOFF DOUGHERTY, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
10-31-1996
LACK OF BOOKS STYMIES MANY BILINGUAL PUPILS -- PUBLISHERS AVOID LESS COMMON
TONGUES
By GEOFF DOUGHERTY, Staff Writer
Date: 10-31-1996, Thursday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star

When Irene Colyer took a job as a bilingual teacher in the Garfield
schools, the textbook companies deluged her with catalogs offering books
and classroom materials.

The trouble was, the offerings were designed for Spanish-speaking
students. Colyer teaches Polish-speaking children and has been unable to
find any bilingual materials.

"There's never anything in Polish," she said.

Educators like Colyer ...

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