Young Voices
Advocates say R.I. must keep up with increase in multilingual learners. Not the other way around
Spanish was Marco Lima’s first language, the one he spoke at home with his family from Guatemala. That began to change around second grade. “In second grade, I remember being excited to speak with another classmate in Spanish,” Lima, 18, a senior at TIMES2 STEM Academy in Providence, said in an interview. “Then, when the […]