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IDRA Newsletter: Bilingual Education - http://www.idra.org/Newslttr/1998/Jan/Josie.htm
A number of articles about the issue from the Intercultural Development Research Association. |
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Online NewsHour Forum: Bilingual Education -- September 29, 1997 - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/september97/bilingual_9-29.html
An excellent examination of the debate over bilingual education by PBS. |
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The Case Against Biligual Education - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/biling.htm
Atlantic Monthly: Why even Latino parents are rejecting bilingual education. |
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Hoover Essay- Bilingual Education: A Critique - http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/he/22/22a.html
The evolution of the bilingual education debate from its origin in the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Bilingual Education Act (1968). |
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Debunking the Myths of the Unz Initiative - http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~urrutia/chicano/DebunkingMyths.html
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. |
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Hundreds Wait for Bilingual Education - http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/NEWS/L.A.Times_Oct23.html
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. |
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Twisted Tongues: The Failure of Bilingual Education - http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/pop_billing.html
Article by Rosalie Pedalino Porter of the READ Institute arguing that bilingual education represents a radically departure from treatment of earlier generations of immigrant children and a form of segregation. |
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U.S. Bilingual Education Funds Ruled Out for Ebonics Speakers - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/stories/riley122596.htm
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. |
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100 Protest Initiative to End Bilingual Teaching - http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/L.A.Times_Jan4.html
Los Angeles Times |
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Opinions Vary on Studies That Back Bilingual Classes - http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/L.A.Times_March2unz.html
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. |