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Direct linkGarcia, 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
Leake, Donald; Leake, Brenda – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Schools' two new coeducational African-American immersion schools are not segregationist. Key programmatic changes are based on an African social education concept and include staffing based on teaching experience (not race or gender), teacher class assignments lasting two or more years, teacher home visits, staff…
Descriptors: Blacks, Coeducation, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Meier, Nicholas – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
A California teacher in a successful Structured English Program criticizes Keith Baker's November 1998 article's inaccuracies. Baker fails to recognize that gains of immersion and early-exit students in David Ramirez's study are not sustained over time. Also, he erroneously compares study results of defined and ill-defined programs. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Immersion Programs, Misconceptions
Krashen, Stephen – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Keith Baker's claims in his November 1998 article on Structured English Immersion are based on unpublished data. There are no data showing that all-English structured immersion programs are superior to well-constructed programs that include literacy development and subject-matter teaching in the child's first language. (12 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Immersion Programs, Language of Instruction, Misconceptions
Baker, Keith – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Meier and Krashen, both employed in California's education system, do an injustice to students in rehashing an already settled battle. Fed up with two decades of failure, California voters replaced bilingual education with structured English immersion. Meier and Krashen offer no suggestions for coping with Proposition 227. (27 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Immersion Programs, Language Proficiency
Ascher, Carol – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Explains antecedents, program variations, and rationale for developing single-sex schools for African-American males and females. Such schools share various values and features based on the importance of gender differences. Most programs offer appropriate same-sex role models, help with transition to adulthood, cultural inoculation, strengthened…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Immersion Programs
