Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.
http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier
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thanks for sharing this!
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This is really Interesting insight. Canada has literally redrawn the blueprint for how a Western country can respond, in rapid time, to a refugee crisis halfway across the world. I am gonna read more on it after completing my david morrell first blood
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tommus wrote:Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.
http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier
FWIW, clicking on this link at 12:44 PM central time 2/16/17 produced a 500 error. The report page was in French.
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MorkTheFiddle wrote:tommus wrote:Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.
http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier
FWIW, clicking on this link at 12:44 PM central time 2/16/17 produced a 500 error. The report page was in French.
I just clicked on it now (5:42 PM, 16 Feb) and it worked perfectly.
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Re: Helping Syrian refugee students learn English
tommus wrote:MorkTheFiddle wrote:tommus wrote:Interesting insight into how Syrian refugee immigrants are being helped to learn English right here in Kingston, Ontario.
http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/03/helping-erase-language-barrier
FWIW, clicking on this link at 12:44 PM central time 2/16/17 produced a 500 error. The report page was in French.
I just clicked on it now (5:42 PM, 16 Feb) and it worked perfectly.
It is working fine here, too, at 2:22 PM 2/17.
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