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Direct linkJacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2019
Bilingual education is on its way back in California. After decisively rejecting bilingual education in 1998, state voters enthusiastically endorsed its return in 2016. Educators are eager to offer more bilingual classes--and not only to recently arrived immigrants. Increasingly, English-speaking parents are also sold on the cognitive benefits of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Shortage, English Language Learners
Garcia, Amaya – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
In 2016, California voters overturned a 1998 law that curtailed bilingual instruction throughout the state. After nearly 20 years of "English only" programs, what will it take to restore the schools' capacity to provide a broader range of services to English Learners, including dual language immersion and other forms of bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Public Schools, English Only Movement
Ramirez, Manuel; Perez, Magdalenda; Valdez, Gladys; Hall, Brittany – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The principal objective of this study was to investigate the long-term (35-36 years) effects of a K-3 bilingual-multicultural programme by studying the former Mexican-American participants and controls as adults in their 30s and 40s. The controls were enrolled in an English immersion programme and were matched to the experimental programme…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Graduation, Academic Achievement, Quality of Life
Linton, April – Intercultural Education, 2007
Two-way bilingual immersion programs are noteworthy within the context of US public education because, in them, the children of immigrants are essential assets. Language-minority and English-speaking pupils are grouped together, starting in kindergarten or earlier and extending at least through grade five, with a goal of bilingual proficiency and…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
Download full textPurcell, John – 2002
California's Proposition 227 requires that all children be taught English by being taught in English. This proposition, which basically outlaws bilingual education, is the newest chapter in the history of how non-English speaking and limited English proficient (LEP) students should be educated. After presenting the historical, social, political,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Sosa, Alicia, Ed. – NABE News, 2000
The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) newsletter is published 8 times a year in order to help NABE fulfill its mission of addressing the educational needs of language-minority Americans. Topics such as educational reform, bilingual education, bilingualism, indigenous bilingual education, second language teaching (theory and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
