Bilingual Education
Immersion or Bilingual Education: Is One Superior? Nationwide, about 3.5 million public school students do not know English well enough to succeed in a regular classroom. In the early twentieth century, such children would have been expected to learn English without much special help, sinking or swimming on their own. Of course, many millions of children did learn this way, but many others failed, falling further behind each year or dropping out of school altogether. Bilingual Education first appeared over 160 years ago to help ease the thousands of non-English speaking children into the American educational system and prepare then for instruction in regular English classrooms. This first program of bilingual education, still being used in some areas today, only trapped students in segregated classes that denied them the opportunity to learn English effectively. In recent years, research has shown that abandoning the current bilingual education system has “raised test scores at nearly every subject and grade level by 10-20%”(Wildavsky 2). With this new program and positive results, it is time for this nation to evaluate our bilingual education methods. The demographics of our public sch
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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