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For many Americans, bilingual education seems to defy common sense – not to mention the Melting Pot tradition. They ask:
If non-English-speaking students are isolated in foreign-language classrooms, how are they ever going to learn English, the key to upward mobility?
What was wrong with the old "sink or swim" method that worked for generations of earlier immigrants?
Isn't bilingual education just another example of "political correctness" run amok – the inability to say no to a vociferous ethnic lobby?
Some English Only advocates go further, arguing that even if bilingual education is ef... “No Child Left Behind” Transforms Bilingual Education Programs, Empowers Hispanic Parents to Ensure LEP Children Learn English
Dear Republican Colleague:
As the attached article from the Associated Press suggests, many Hispanic American parents across the United States are dissatisfied with bilingual education programs that slow their children’s progress in learning English. As parent Lupe Martinez puts it: “I’m not opposed to my childr... The National Institutes of Health, with co-funding from the Department of Education, has awarded a grant to the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC to study the acquisition of English literacy by children who speak Spanish as their native language. In a five-year program of research, the Center and its collaborators Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University seek to improve our understanding of the factors that predict success as Spanish-speaking children learn to read and write in En... Use of Both Languages and Cultural Diversity
On the campuses where effective bilingual programs operate, there is campus-wide respect for the cultural differences of students. Teachers - bilingual, English as a second language (ESL) and mainstream - use cross-cultural interactions (where students and teachers learn from each other and about each other in deep and meaningful ways) and publicly display value for students' native languages.
The specific instruction of LEP students is characterized by a structured use of the two languages. The amount of language use is based firmly on... Special education teachers work in a variety of settings. Some have their own classrooms and teach only special education students; others work as special education resource teachers and offer individualized help to students in general education classrooms; still others teach together with general education teachers in classes composed of both general and special education students. Some teachers work with special education students ... Performing a forensic evaluation expands and complicates the clinician’s familiar role of diagnosing and treating psychiatric illness and raises the important issues of competence, agency, and ethics. It is extremely important for the clinician to understand the differences in roles and to keep these roles separate. Wearing “two hats”--therapist and forensic evaluator--with a family is inappropriate and complicates both the therapy and the evaluation (Bernet, 1983).
Competence as a forensic specialist (Gindes, 1995) is crucial because a well-trained ... As stakeholders in the education of Texas students, we offer the following data as
crucial to the equitable funding of bilingual programs, the training of bilingual teachers, and the
monitoring of bilingual programs to ensure federal and state compliance and research-based
practices in these same programs.
The total student enrollment in Texas for 2003-04 is 4,328,028. Of those students,
660,707 are identified ... |
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