The original objective of bilingual education was to ensure students would not fall behind academically because of a poor command of English and to gradually teach them English as a second language. If language-minority students were taught some subjects in their native tongue, proponents insisted, they potentially could learn English without sacrificing content knowledge.
But bilingual education's critics argue that the approach keeps students in a cycle of native language dependency that ultimately inhibits significant progress in English la
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