BY TANIA VALDEMORO
tvaldemoro@MiamiHerald.com
They study El Mio Cid, Spain's oldest epic poem, in Spanish. They analyze mystery literature written by Frenchman Georges Simenon in Italian. They learn Algebra II, geometry and statistics in French.
They are International Studies high school students -- following a demanding bilingual program that gives them the same education as their peers in Spain, France, Germany and Italy.
And they are growing in number.
As of last week, there is a new public high school -- the International Studies Preparatory Academy @ Gables, or ISPA -- the first magnet school in Miami-Dade to offer only International Studies in a high school setting.
A venture between Miami-Dade Schools and the consulates of Spain, France and Italy, the high school completes the International Studies trajectory for the nearly 3,000 students on that course.
They will be able to go from first to 12th grade and take courses in history, foreign languages and some math and science classes -- in Spanish, French, Italian or German.
``I think the program is pretty great,'' said Robert Zoeller, 10, a fifth-grader at Ada Merritt K-8 Center, who has been taking the Spanish curriculum for the past four years. ``We get to learn social studies in Spanish. Not a lot of kids get to experience this much.''...
They are International Studies high school students -- following a demanding bilingual program that gives them the same education as their peers in Spain, France, Germany and Italy.
And they are growing in number.
As of last week, there is a new public high school -- the International Studies Preparatory Academy @ Gables, or ISPA -- the first magnet school in Miami-Dade to offer only International Studies in a high school setting.
A venture between Miami-Dade Schools and the consulates of Spain, France and Italy, the high school completes the International Studies trajectory for the nearly 3,000 students on that course.
They will be able to go from first to 12th grade and take courses in history, foreign languages and some math and science classes -- in Spanish, French, Italian or German.
``I think the program is pretty great,'' said Robert Zoeller, 10, a fifth-grader at Ada Merritt K-8 Center, who has been taking the Spanish curriculum for the past four years. ``We get to learn social studies in Spanish. Not a lot of kids get to experience this much.''...
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/30/1799836/more-students-learning-in-other.html#ixzz11ViOB64m
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