The Arizona Department of Education is seeking to reassign teachers with thick accents who teach English classes. Read transcript >>
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• Is Arizona wrong to remove teachers with accents?
• Will students receive a better education with teachers whose English speaking skills are deemed acceptable by the state?
• How do you decide what is an acceptable accent?
• Do non-native speakers make better teachers of English?
• What's more important: what teachers say, or how they say it?
READ MORE
• Arizona cracks down on teachers with heavy accents (The Raw Story with CNN video)
• CNN Spins Arizona's English Ed. Standard as Accent 'Crackdown,' 'Ban' (interesting analysis of CNN report from NewsBusters)
• Concern over accented teachers not original to Arizona (Washington Post)
