A spanish GED program in New York, educators try to strike a balance between helping immigrant get a regular diploma in their home schools and encouraging them to try alternative schooling if they are running out of time. State administrators of the GED say the demand for the Spanish version of the test is growing a lot in regions of their states with a lot of spanish speaking students. The GED in spanish provides an incentive for schools to put the limited-English-proficient kid on a GED track rather than a regular high school education track, that undermines the goals. Many student that are enrolled students say they have chosen that path because it's not feasible for them to get a regular high school diploma.”For example, 20-year-old Marco Cusco, an immigrant from Ecuador who is waiting for the results from his recent Spanish GED test, transferred from a regular high school to the BOCES program last year in 11th grade after he realized he had only 11 of the 21 credits he needed to graduate. He had passed only two of the five required New York Regents exams”.Most of the students who take spanish GED …show more content…
Simons Island, Matt Day is trying to introduce more than just a foreign language spanish class .He's also introducing his students to a concept known as flipped learning.Flipped learning has given the class a greater flexibility to work with each individual, part of the reason he introduced the concept to Frederica Academy Spanish classes are serving as pilot groups for flipped learning.student are liking the flipped program there are program in the computer not all school have these program teacher are loving it because they can actually teach spanish class. The Students are receiving instant feedback on online analysis of their finished assignments, they get help along the way when they do there work."I was nervous at first because we hadn't particularly done things online before and it's harder to type in Spanish because of the different accent marks," said sophomore Sarah Ashley Trowbridge, 15. "But it's become a lot easier." That one of the many student after trying that program. Learning Spanish will enable you to keep pace with Hispanic influence in there culture which is strong and getting stronger. Research indicates that knowing and using two languages reduces your chances of developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease. The scientists who studied this were motivated by earlier studies which showed that bilingualism enhances mental abilities in both children and older adults. Other studies show that studying