WBHM Airs Four-Part Series On Language-Minority Education
There are more and more students whose first language isn’t English in our public schools. And many places in the South — places like Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee — don’t have long histories of bilingualism or much practice teaching language-minority students.
Public Radio WBHM 90.3 FM’s Dan Carsen explores some of these challenges, their implications, and innovative schools trying to turn what some consider a liability into an asset, in a four-part series airing this week.
Part One of Carsen’s series, “Language-Minority Education In The South,” is set to air Tuesday, May 5, on 90.3 WBHM and 91.5 WSGN Gadsden during Morning Edition and All Things Considered, WBHM’s morning and afternoon news programs.
WBHM encourages you to listen and share your thoughts.
Carsen produced this series with the help of a fellowship from Renaissance Journalism’s initiative, “The Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education.”
The project was designed to produce coast-to-coast coverage of the opportunity gap affecting the nation’s schoolchildren and is being developed in conjunction with the Ford Foundation’s “More and Better Learning Time Initiative,” which supports new and innovative ways to redesign learning opportunities for students.
Only 30 journalists from across the country were selected to participate, and each one produces a project that will be showcased on Renaissance Journalism’s website and in other media.
About WBHM
Public Radio WBHM 90.3 FM, a listener-supported service of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is “Your NPR News Station” and home to the Alabama Radio Reading Service for the blind and print-impaired. WBHM programming and award-winning regional journalism also can be heard in North Central Alabama on WSGN 91.5 FM through a partnership with Gadsden State Community College. Listen and give online at WBHM.org and follow the station at WBHM on Twitter and Facebook.
About Renaissance Journalism
Renaissance Journalism launches innovative journalism and storytelling initiatives that promote equity, community empowerment and social justice. Based in San Francisco, the center provides support, training, technical assistance and consultation to journalists and news organizations to address some of the most pressing issues facing the world today.
