From The Newsroom: ESL Changes, StoryCorps Practice

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 10, 2014 at 6:33 PM CST

Teacher Jorge Saucedo works with adult ESL student Marina Baldez.

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Some significant changes are on the horizon for the way adults learn English in Texas. And in advance of StoryCorps setting up shop in North Texas, some high-school students conduct in-depth interviews with their parents.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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