Forgetting the Bilingual Lesson
More foolishness from California on bilingual education, which has proved to be an utter disaster for WAY too many of the students trapped in it:
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Forgetting the Bilingual Lesson
LA Times editorial, August 29, 2006
State legislators want to put ESL kids in a corner with different textbooks, and are willing to punish Board of Education members who don't want to revisit the bad old days.
CALIFORNIA WAS SUPPOSED TO have learned a sad but important lesson from its years of experimenting with bilingual education: When you isolate a group of largely poor, minority students and give them different instruction from what other students receive, they tend to get a dumbed-down, second-rate education.
Unfortunately, that lesson hasn't fully sunk in. Nor has the idea that playground politics and retribution are not in the best interests of schoolchildren.
Unfortunately, that lesson hasn't fully sunk in. Nor has the idea that playground politics and retribution are not in the best interests of schoolchildren.
posted by Whitney Tilson at 3:55 PM
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