PRI – Jean Guerrero
““I’ve learned that I have to speak up because otherwise people who are watching the video will not hear me at all,” says the student of the Casita Center for Technology, Science and Math. Gomez speaks English as a second language. Her Mexican parents raised her with Spanish. As part of the fourth-grade news crew at Casita, Gomez has quickly improved her English fluency. Their program includes a team of anchors, a sports reporter and behind-the-scenes graphic designers. All of them are fourth graders. “Everything that we learn they taught us in a fun way,” Gomez says. Most of the students at Casita are from low-income families. Forty percent speak English as a second language. Yet they’re outperforming children from more privileged backgrounds.”(more)