NAEP Scores in States That Cut Bilingual Ed. Fuel Concern on ELLs
Preliminary findings from new research suggest that in three states where voters decided to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion as the default method for teaching English-language learners, the new approach may be producing less-than-stellar results.
The studies were commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Linguistic Minority Research Institute at UC-Santa Barbara, as well as the University of California’s All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity, or UC ACCORD. The findings were presented here in California’s capital city during the institute’s annual conference on May 2-3, which focused on “restrictive language policies.”
In 1998, California voters approved Proposition 227, which aimed to curtail bilingual education in the state. Arizona voters approved a similar initiative, Proposition 203, in 2000; two years later, Massachusetts voters passed Question 2, which aimed to reduce bilingual...
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