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Breaking the Language Barrier With Cornerstone

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n amazing transformation is taking place at Colorado’s Glenwood Springs Elementary School: after only one year of using Longman Cornerstone, an English Language learning program from Pearson, young students who were unable to speak a word of English are now reading, writing and speaking the language nearly fluently. “I’m going to get teary-eyed,” says Jeanine King, the students’ teacher, “because of the success these kids have made. I’m so proud of them.” And the success will continue: Cornerstone is now in every K-5 ELL classroom across the entire district.  Quite a story…