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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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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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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 |