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From Primary Language Instruction to English Immersion |
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Bilingual Education
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The five school districts examined in this report took the concept of immersion language teaching and turned it into a practical educational model for teaching today's Limited-English Proficient students. Readers will benefit from Mr. Clark's evaluation of the districts and his data on student achievement.
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The Economic Cost to Native-Born Americans of Limited English Language Proficiency |
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Bilingual Education
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Barry R. Chiswick
Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Paul W. Miller
Department of Economics
University of Western Australia
INTRODUCTION
In recent years there has been much concern over the consequences of a variety of education programs, including bilingual education and English-as-a-second-language programs. These concerns have been legal and educational. The legal concerns are over the access students have to various types of schooling, and have been played out in the courts, legislative bodies and in referendums. The educational concerns have frequently focused on the extent to which various types of schooling either enhance or retard English language proficiency and proficiency in the students’ origin or ancestral language. This study focuses on another dimension of the public policy issue that, ultimately, may provide a critical, but hitherto apparently unexplored, aspect of the debate. Namely, to what extent do those with limited English language proficiency, but with some degree of proficiency in another language, incur economic costs.
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Bilingual Education: A Ten State Report Card |
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Bilingual Education
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This policy brief discusses the bilingual education laws of the ten states with the most language-minority students in detail. The brief also grades the laws of the different states and offers policy suggestions regarding the education of language-minority children.
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National Academy of Sciences Report on Bilingual Education |
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Bilingual Education
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This report by Prof. Charles Glenn and published by the READ Institute , summarizes the key findings of the National Research Council's report, Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda. The NRC found that based on all of the available evidence they could not determine if children were being helped or harmed by bilingual education versus alternative programs.
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The Importance of Learning English |
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Bilingual Education
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A new national poll of Hispanic parents on education issues. We polled 600 Hispanic parents in English and Spanish on how they wanted their children educated. 63 percent wanted their kids to learn English as soon as possible, 81 percent wanted their children taught in English if it meant more time spent learning English, and parents overwhelmingly ranked learning English as their number one concern.
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Becoming Americans—U.S. Immigrant Integration, Roger Clegg Testifies Before Congress |
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Assimilation
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 CEO president Roger Clegg testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law at its hearings on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Becoming Americans—U.S. Immigrant Integration.” In his testimony, Mr. Clegg explained why the assimilation of new immigrants must be addressed in any immigration reform legislation that Congress passes
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American Dreams Foreign Flags |
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Assimilation
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By Linda Chavez, New York Times, March 30, 2006.
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