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Children learn Spanish at home

Chelsey Bishop

Karen Childress plays UNO with her two youngest children at the kitchen table, while her eldest son reads a book. The little ones shout out the colors and numbers, drowning out the sound of their brother slowly but correctly pronouncing each syllable on the page.

ESL classes offer support and community

Brittany Shope

The bell rings. Science Hill High School students crowd the hallways. Among them, five international students head to English as a Second Language class, where they learn American culture, improve their reading and writing skills, and get support for other courses.

Quinceañera

Felicia Lambdin

Under the wooden rafters of Notre Dame Catholic Church in Greeneville, Tenn., a young girl walks slowly up the aisle on the way to her womanhood. She is flanked by her mother and stepfather, and she follows a procession of young ladies in slim red dresses and gentlemen in white Navy officer’s uniforms.

'Even Start' brings literacy home

Alexandra Ingraham

Every morning as Mayne Beceria gets ready for school, so does her young daughter Melanie. Too young for kindergarten, the dark-haired, giggly girl goes to a special school — Johnson City Even Start.

'TENNderCare' offers health care for uninsured children

Sloane Trentham

Although free health care is available to all children, Hispanics are the least likely of all children in the United States to receive it.

Growning up in a bicultural home

Lisa Borden Lange

Johnny Rojas, whose family is from Mexico, is a senior in high school looking forward to his future. He says being bilingual can make it easier to find employment.