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- An excellent examination of the debate over bilingual education by PBS.

- Seattle Times.
- Reason magazine: The many failures of bilingual education.
- Atlantic Monthly: Why even Latino parents are rejecting bilingual education.
- Washington Post article about the Clinton administration's declaration of "black English" as a form of slang, and therefore programs which teach otherwise cannot do so with federal money intended for bilingual education.
- Commentary by Domenico Maceri, The Denver Business Journal.
- Los Angeles Times
- Los Angeles Times - Hundreds of students whose parents have petitioned for bilingual education in the Los Angeles school system are in limbo while principals try to arrange bilingual classes.
- "An all-or-nothing referendum that pivots on simplistic half-truths is a poor way to resolve the issue." - Los Angeles Times.
- Massachusetts has over 40,000 bilingual education students, and is one of only nine states in the US to require bilingual education in all districts where there is a sufficient number of students who are not proficient in English.
- Daily Free Press. When Maria E. Brisk came to America as a graduate student, she was lucky enough to be fluent in English as well as her native Spanish. But the Boston University professor realizes not every child has been awarded such a chance. Brisk sai
- A number of articles about the issue from the Intercultural Development Research Association.
- from Education Week
- Denver Rocky Mtn. News
- Los Angeles Times. As the debate over bilingual education bounds toward a spring ballot initiative, two studies scheduled to be released today land on the side of teaching children in their native language first, then gradually switching to English. Howe
- English is still being taught to immigrants but not in the manner and pace that nativists would like. The opponents of Bilingual Education feel that a child, regardless of age, must be placed in an intensive English-only learning environment, without rega
- Congressman Wally Herger on English Immersion. My father grew up in a household where only Swiss German was spoken. When my father started school, however, he rapidly assimilated to the English language. And my father was the rule, not the exception.
- Article by Rosalie Pedalino Porter of the READ Institute arguing that bilingual education represents a radically departure from treatment of earlier generations of immigrant children and a form of segregation.
- Hispanic Magazine. From a teacher's standpoint, there is no debate regarding bilingual education: Students' understanding in their native tongue makes school subjects accessible. Even though those in the classroom ought to know the situation best, politic
- The evolution of the bilingual education debate from its origin in the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Bilingual Education Act (1968).
- An article from Education Week which examines different bilingual program models and reviews the debate over bilingual education. Includes links to related Education Week articles.
- A Texas judge's remarks to a mother who spoke to her child in Spanish have sparked a national controversy. Bilingual-education advocates have asked the judge to apologize to all Hispanics, and have criticized him for a lack of understanding of their field
- Now that Proposition 227 has been approved, how should it be implemented?

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