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"Society: Issues: Bilingual Education: News" contains magazine or newspaper articles and op-ed pieces which deal with bilingual education policy, legislation, or politics. All viewpoints are welcome.

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• 100 Protest Initiative to End Bilingual Teaching

  http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/L.A.Times_Jan4.html
  Los Angeles Times

• Hundreds Wait for Bilingual Education

  http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/NEWS/L.A.Times_Oct23.html
  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.

• Massnews.com - Bilingual Education Troubled Program

  http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/Schools/sch13.htm
  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.

• Opinions Vary on Studies That Back Bilingual Classes

  http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/L.A.Times_March2unz.html
  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. However, critics of bilingual education and even some supporters raised questions about the studies.

• The Case Against Biligual Education

  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/05/the-case-against-bilingual-education/305426/
  Atlantic Monthly: Why even Latino parents are rejecting bilingual education.

• The Pros of Bilingual Education

  http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1999/06/07/editorial4.html
  Commentary by Domenico Maceri, The Denver Business Journal.

• Twisted Tongues: The Failure of Bilingual Education

  http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/pop_billing.html
  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.

• U.S. Bilingual Education Funds Ruled Out for Ebonics Speakers

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/stories/riley122596.htm
  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.

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