The Pros of Bilingual Education
Commentary by Domenico Maceri, The Denver Business Journal.
Canada offers Americans bilingual education lessons
Denver Rocky Mtn. News
Loco, Completamente Loco
Reason magazine: The many failures of bilingual education.
Hoover Essay- Bilingual Education: A Critique
The evolution of the bilingual education debate from its origin in the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Bilingual Education Act (1968).
100 Protest Initiative to End Bilingual Teaching
Los Angeles Times
Opinions Vary on Studies That Back Bilingual Classes
Los Angeles Times. As the debate over bilingual education bounds toward a spring ballot initiative, two studies scheduled to be released today land on the side of teaching children in their native language first, then gradually switching to English. However, critics of bilingual education and even some supporters raised questions about the studies.
Hundreds Wait for Bilingual Education
Los Angeles Times - Hundreds of students whose parents have petitioned for bilingual education in the Los Angeles school system are in limbo while principals try to arrange bilingual classes.
Brisk stresses bilingual education for Americans
Daily Free Press. When Maria E. Brisk came to America as a graduate student, she was lucky enough to be fluent in English as well as her native Spanish. But the Boston University professor realizes not every child has been awarded such a chance. Brisk said the nation will suffer later if it is unwilling to offer financial support for bilingual programs.
Issues Page: Bilingual Education
An article from Education Week which examines different bilingual program models and reviews the debate over bilingual education. Includes links to related Education Week articles.
IDRA Newsletter: Bilingual Education
A number of articles about the issue from the Intercultural Development Research Association.
Massnews.com - Bilingual Education Troubled Program
Massachusetts has over 40,000 bilingual education students, and is one of only nine states in the US to require bilingual education in all districts where there is a sufficient number of students who are not proficient in English.
The Bilingual Debate Index Page
Now that Proposition 227 has been approved, how should it be implemented?
Online NewsHour Forum: Bilingual Education -- September 29, 1997
An excellent examination of the debate over bilingual education by PBS.
Debunking the Myths of the Unz Initiative
English is still being taught to immigrants but not in the manner and pace that nativists would like. The opponents of Bilingual Education feel that a child, regardless of age, must be placed in an intensive English-only learning environment, without regard to any other parts of the curriculum.
Gov. Bush supports bilingual education
Seattle Times.
Bilingual Ed. Legislation Passes House
from Education Week
The Case Against Biligual Education
Atlantic Monthly: Why even Latino parents are rejecting bilingual education.
U.S. Bilingual Education Funds Ruled Out for Ebonics Speakers
Washington Post article about the Clinton administration's declaration of "black English" as a form of slang, and therefore programs which teach otherwise cannot do so with federal money intended for bilingual education.
English Immersion--A Necessary Lesson
Congressman Wally Herger on English Immersion. My father grew up in a household where only Swiss German was spoken. When my father started school, however, he rapidly assimilated to the English language. And my father was the rule, not the exception.
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