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• 03 May 10
  

  Morgan McGaha

  Bilingual education news and updates about K-12 schools and the policies that guide them.

  ELL

• 11 Feb 10
  

  Kristina Sargent
• 08 Oct 09
  

  angela kujala
  • 2000-01
  • almost 10 percent of the total pre-K
  • percen
  • through 12th grade public school enrollment
  • grown  105
  • has grown
  • percent, while the general school population has grown only 12 percent
  • since
  • the 1990-91 school year
  • 460 languages
  • only seven percent of limited-English students scored "at
  • or above proficient" in reading on the 2003 fourth grade National Assessment
  • of Educational Progress
  • compared to about 30 percent of students overall
  • eighth grade reading and math, were
  • tandards
  • standards must
  • student improvement in English
  • language proficiency
  • academic content
  • bilingual education, which teaches
  • in both English and their native
  • original objectives
  • would not fall behind academically
  • gradually teach them the language
  • taught some subjects in their native languages
  • they potentially could learn English without sacrificing content
  • critics argue that the approach keeps students in a cycle of   

    native-language dependency
  • native-language dependency
  • first learn to read in the language they are fluent in and then transfer the  skills over to English—their second language—they will develop
  • stronger literacy skills in the long term
  • ncreasingly global society
  • maintain

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• 24 Aug 09
  

  kristi johnson
• 31 Jul 09
  

  Tony Rocco

  Research Connections Newsletter:
  The EPE Research Center's monthly newsletter provides the latest in education policy and analysis.

  education language esl teachers teaching schools schooling k-12 learning

• 01 Apr 08
  

  adina sullivan

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