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Students Adopt StoryCorps Model to Learn English

Story air date: Monday, December 20, 2010

Olga Halpern comforts one of her students who broke down while listening to a story he recorded about his grandmother's death.

Every week on NPR, people share their memories and stories on the long-running series, StoryCorps. As Illinois Public Media’s Sean Powers reports, a Champaign elementary school is adopting the StoryCorps model – complete with musical backgrounds -- as a way to teach English.

(Photo by Sean Powers/WILL)

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