Bilingual Education Websites
What
is Bilingual Education? | Current Events | Some
Arguments in Favor of Bilingual Education |
Some Arguments against Bilingual Education
| Some Examples of Bilingual Schools
Bilingual Education Resources | Testimony
Resources for English Learners
What is Bilingual Education?
Bilingual Education FAQs (from the U.S. Department of Education website)
The Intercultural Development Research Association page on Bilingual Education
Current Events / Issues
Education Week on the Web "In Battle Over Proposition 227, Both Sides Command Armies and Statistics." by Lynn Schnaiberg
Proposition 227 - English Language in Public Schools: Initiative Statute
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Legislation
A NewsHour Report on Bilingual Education (September 21, 1997)
Some Arguments in Favor of Bilingual Education
"Why Bilingual Education?" by Stephen Krashen (professor of education at the University of Southern California)
"What Price English?" by Lynn Schnaiberg Education Week on the Web. April 29, 1998.
"Some California Schoools Finding Ways Around Prop. 227" by Lynn Schnaiberg Education Week on the Web. September 30, 1998.
TITLE VII--BILINGUAL EDUCATION, LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENT, AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS
Issues in U.S. Language Policy: Bilingual Education from James Crawford's website
Some Arguments against Bilingual Education
"The Case Against Bilingual Education" by Rosalie Pedalino Porter. Atlantic Monthly Online, May 1998.
English For the Children - All Initiative Texts Including Massachusetts 2002 Campaign, Leadership and Texts
Some Examples of Bilingual Schools
Escole Bilingue de Berkeley - East Bay French-American School
The Chinese American International School - San Francisco Bay area
American Indian Language Development Institute and Southwest Memory Project - University of Arizona, Tucson
Bilingual Education Resources
Lesson Plans and Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers - a website of Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Northridge
Center
for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
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Education
Week on the Web: Bilingual Education
A Brief background essay an an important education issue in America.
National
Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational
Programs
(formerly The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education)
Articles, research reports, & links to related sites.
Teaching
Indigenous Languages (Jon Reyhner)
Language teaching suggestions for indigenous and other languages
University
of Southern California - Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
Four principal activities: (1) research; (2) publications; (3) training; and
(4) public service
The Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA - part of the U.S. Department of Education)
The Center for Applied Linguistics Directory of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Programs
Testimony
The Hispanic Dropout Report (from the U.S. Department of Education website)
"No More Excuses: The Final Report of the Hispanic Dropout Project" - Released February 2, 1998
Raising a bilingual and biliterate child: My experience - April 2002
Resources for English Learners
California Deptartment of Education - English Learners: Language and Culture in Education
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