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“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 children being bilingual but they should know English first."
Many Hispanic American parents are... Conclusions. Structural and caregiver characteristics have been found to be associated with children’s academic, cognitive, behavioral, and social development.
Smaller group sizes, lower child-caregiver ratios, and more caregiver training and education appear to have positive effects on these important developmental outcomes. Future work might address threshold levels for these child care characteristics, or the point at which further i... “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 children being bilingual but they should know English first."
Many Hispanic American parents are understandably outraged when their children are denied the cha... Misconceptions Fuel the Fire
Misleading negative campaigns across the country are endangering the future of bilingual education programs. At the national, state and local levels, bilingual education is being attacked for its alleged inability to properly and quickly teach the English language to non-English speaking students despite research to the contrary. As this movement to scrap bilingual education gains national appeal, the educational future of language-minority children hangs in the balance.
Congressional Activity ... COLLEGE STATION--A report released by the Texas Educational Excellence Project(TEEP) finds a link between education programs geared toward limited Englishproficient (LEP) students and Latino student dropout rate.
Specifically, the report findsthat as the number of LEP students served by either English as a second language (ESL)or bilingual education programs increase, Latino dropout rates decrease.The purpose of the report was to test arguments in favor of and against bilingualeducation.
Some argue that bilingual education would decrease Latino dropout rates,while others argue that continuing high levels of Latino dropout rates are a function ofbilingual education. Criti... The National Association for Bilingual Education is the only professional organization at the national level wholly devoted to representing both English language learners and bilingual education professionals. Along with our affiliate organizations in 23 states, we represent a combined membership of more than 20,000 bilingual and English-as-a-second-language teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, university professors and students, researchers, a... 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?
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