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Burnett, Gary – 1993
The assessment and placement of language minority students remain among the most serious problems facing schools today. As of 1990, 14 percent of the school-aged population in the United States comes from language minority backgrounds. Significant numbers of these students are not being properly identified by educators. Assessment procedures in a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Discrimination, Elementary School Students