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Article: LACK OF BOOKS STYMIES MANY BILINGUAL PUPILS
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- October 31, 1996
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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 ...