Bilingual Education | English Immersion Has Led to Higher Test Scores
Ken Noonan is superintendent of schools in Oceanside, California. In 1970, he founded the California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE), which for years actively campaigned for bilingual education. But after the adoption of Proposition 227 in California in 1998, he became convinced that English immersion is a better approach than bilingual education.
Summary: For many years, bilingual education was the preferred strategy of the Oceanside school district in San Diego, California. However, things changed with the passage of Proposition 227, which...
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