Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education | English Immersion Has Not Been Proven to Raise Test Scores
Kenji Hakuta, a professor of education at Stanford University, is a scholar and educator at the forefront of bilingual education and has written extensively on the subject. He is the author of Mirror of Language: the Debate on Bilingualism, co-author (with Ellen Bialystok) of In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second- Language Acquisition, and editor (with Diane August) of The Debate on Bilingualism, Improving Schooling for Language Minority Children: A Research Agenda.
Summary: Pronouncements that English-only approaches work,...
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Table of Contents
- Bilingual Education: A Historical Overview
- Bilingual Education Has Led to the Segregation of Non- English-Speaking Students
- Bilingual Education Has Not Inhibited Immigrant Assimilation
- Bilingual Education Harms Non-English- Speaking Students
- Two-Way Bilingual Programs Benefit Both English- and Non-English-Speaking Students
- English-Only Education Should Be Standard in Most Schools
- English-Only Education Ignores Social and Political Realities
- English Immersion Has Led to Higher Test Scores
- English Immersion Has Not Been Proven to Raise Test Scores
- English Should Remain the Primary Language of the United States
- Americans Should Not Fear Language Diversity
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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