We can no longer ignore the acute educational problem which involves the millions of children from culturally diverse homes. My congressional district has one of the largest Portuguese populations in the United States. as well as thousands of French Canadians. The linguistic. cultural. and psychological hiandicaps suffered by a child who must" learn a foreign language before he can even begin to grasp content material .result in high dropout rates and overall low academic achievement among children from these homes. . Since pEssage of the new immigration regillations in 1965. the city of New Bedford has been inundated with Portuguese immigrants from the Azores. Preseitly. the superintendent of schools. Dr.
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