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Society: Issues: Bilingual Education deals with the policy and debate of issues relating to the education of limited-English proficient students in some combination of their native language and English. Sites dealing with academic research into bilingual education should be submitted to Science: Social Sciences: Language and Linguistics: Bilingualism: Bilingual Education. Pages of interest to practicing bilingual educators, or for classroom use, should be submitted to Reference: Education: K through 12: Bilingual Education.

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Resources in This Category

• History of Bilingual Education

  http://www.rethinkingschools.org/restrict.asp?path=archive/12_03/langhst.shtml
  Article from the journal Rethinking Schools describing bilingual or non-English-language schools in U.S. history, starting with Ohio's adoption of a bilingual education law in 1839.

• National Council for Languages and International Studies

  http://www.languagepolicy.org/
  This site provides a look at the work of the NCLIS and the Joint National Committee for Languages. The member organizations of NCLIS-JNCL are united in their belief that all Americans must have the opportunity to learn and use English and at least one other language.

• NYTimes.com - Wave of Pupils Lacking English Strains Schools

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/05/education/05ESL.html
  Students who do not speak English well or at all are increasingly enrolling in smaller, rural American school districts with little or no experience or resources to teach them. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]

• Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education

  http://www.kidsource.com/education/ten.fallacy.biling.ed.html
  Discusses commonly held misconceptions about bilingual education in the United States.

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