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Students Break Down Language Barriers in a Sacramento Parking Lot

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Heather Hutcheson is an English professor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she teaches advanced composition and creative writing. But Wednesdays are different. Class takes place five miles down the road -- and a world away -- at an unlikely place. Hutcheson leads what are called "intercambios," English and Spanish exchanges between her students and day laborers out waiting for work in the Home Depot parking lot.

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