Sentences with phrase «bilingual education has»

Bilingual education has had a turbulent history in the United States.

Mr. Rangel says his organization has had the «honesty» to recognize bilingual education hasn't worked as intended and thus UNO schools have always used «structured English immersion.»

Even controlling for such variables as socioeconomic status, 10th grade math scores, parents» birthplace, sex, and region, bilingual education has unambiguously negative effects on both years of education and attainment of a degree.

In effect, bilingual education has meant a bicultural or really monocultural education in the language and culture that is presumed to be that of children from Spanish - speaking homes.

The executive board of the Washington - based National Association for Bilingual Education has decided not to renew the contract of James Crawford, its executive director, and three board members have resigned in protest.

Originally intended to be transitional, a step on the way to full fluency in English and lasting at most three years, bilingual education has been transformed into the only education many children receive over a much longer period.

In recent years, bilingual education has sparked as much controversy as any other education issue.

Meanwhile, an internal union dispute over bilingual education has added a further complication to the volatile and increasingly bitter labor situation in the nation's second - largest school system.

However, in recent years, recent political and legislative initiatives that disfavor bilingual education have made these educational options difficult to access, despite evidence of their success (Goldenberg, 2009).

In fact, in another state that voted to dismantle bilingual education, Arizona, limited English proficient students in bilingual education have outscored those in all - English programs on SAT9 tests of English reading for the last three years (Crawford, 2000).

«No one should be surprised to learn that all studies of bilingual education have found that teaching children in their primary language promotes achievement in the primary language,» Goldenberg wrote in an article for the American Federation of Teachers.

There is no question that test scores went up in California, but dropping bilingual education had nothing to do with the increase.

In Castañeda v. Pickard, the court ruled that his children were discriminated against, and that bilingual education had to meet 3 criteria:

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The bilingual environment, the developmental education and the love that she has provided our son during the day has comforted us as we balance parenting with our busy work schedules.»

It has implications for critical periods in development, for bilingual education and reading readiness, for developmental disabilities involving language, and for research on computer understanding of speech.

The Rochester City School District has released its proposed budget, and it has slated an increase in funding for bilingual education staff and services.

The election of Betty Rosa, a former bilingual teacher, principal and superintendent of Bronx schools, as the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents further cements the new direction that New York State education policy has taken this year.

The wording in the budget bill would place power with the state Education Department to deal with the matter for bilingual schools teaching for a greater number of hours — a definition that yehivas meet.

The NYC Department of Education has been trying to recruit and retain teachers of color, bilingual teachers and male teachers in an effort to have the adults in the classroom look more like the students, who are overwhelmingly students of color with many speaking a language other than English at home.

Bilingual SEIT had a contract with the Department of Education from 2005 until 2012 to provide services for children ages 3 to 5 with cognitive, communication, social and emotional issues, investigators said.

With figures suggesting that almost 20 % of children of school age in the UK are bilingual, its findings could have major implications for young people's personal and professional prospects, as well as national health and education systems.

Our experts have developed a free, bilingual web - based health education tool, A Smoke Prevention Interactive Experience (ASPIRE), to educate teens on the risks of smoking.

Delia Pompa, the executive director of the Washington - based National Association for Bilingual Education, said the Title VII provisions would discourage schools from using languages other than English, almost to the point of promoting «English only» instruction.

Ron K. Unz declined to specify how he would change bilingual education policy in that state given there is no citizen - initiative process there.

In a new article for Education Next, Joanne Jacobs finds that the move away from bilingual education and towards English immersion, or even dual immersion, has been a response to NCLB and the ComEducation Next, Joanne Jacobs finds that the move away from bilingual education and towards English immersion, or even dual immersion, has been a response to NCLB and the Comeducation and towards English immersion, or even dual immersion, has been a response to NCLB and the Common Core.

A California judge has issued a preliminary injunction that orders the state — at least for now — to allow local bilingual education programs to qualify for federal reading grants.

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In addition to funding for ELL students, Michigan has a small program for bilingual education, with the goal of fostering both English and another language, but funding for the program was cut in half a few years ago because the state legislature had other priorities.

Nearly 500 of the multitrack school's 1,300 students will return to school, and administrators will have to carry out a new state law that calls for limited - English - proficient children to be taught in English - immersion programs, rather than bilingual education.

They held meetings during the first 30 days of school and called parents to persuade them that their child would be better off in the bilingual - education program.

Yet observations I have conducted in more than 300 classrooms in California, Minnesota, New York City, and Massachusetts over the past 15 years indicate that local school systems have commonly used bilingual education as a generic term referring to all three types of language - instruction programs.

Moreover, as with the comparisons discussed above, these estimates may underestimate the true impact of English - language instruction, since Prop 227 has also changed bilingual education.

Predictably, then, I have not found any bilingual - education programs that actually teach initial literacy in native languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, that use ideographic characters.

The most important step a principal can take is to control classroom assignments so that students who had been recommended for bilingual education before Prop 227 are in the same classroom, making it easier to convert the entire classroom to bilingual education on the 31st day of school.

Critics of bilingual education most likely have exaggerated its aggregate harm and supporters most likely have exaggerated its aggregate benefits, since only a minority of English Learners were enrolled in programs that were even nominally bilingual.

A simple comparison, examining only those elementary schools with significant bilingual - education programs (more than 120 students enrolled before Prop 227), reveals that the schools that eliminated their bilingual education programs had a 10 - point gain in reading and a 13 - point gain in math, but those that maintained some form of bilingual - education program had only a 6 - point gain in reading and a 14 - point gain in math.

This comparison may underestimate the impact of eliminating bilingual education, since even the schools that kept more than 120 students in bilingual education still had a large reduction in bilingual - education enrollment.

Thus critics of bilingual education most likely have exaggerated its aggregate harm and supporters most likely have exaggerated its aggregate benefits, since only a minority of English Learners were enrolled in programs that were even nominally bilingual.

In order to provide authentic bilingual education, schools must have teachers who are fluent in the language and enough English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom without combining students from more than two grade levels in one classroom.

In these districts, there was little or no likelihood of having enough students to maintain a bilingual - education program and thus no motive for the school to recruit parents.

The school districts have also failed to require detailed documentation of the need for a bilingual education classroom, as the initiative requires, and they have changed the requirement of a year in a sheltered English - immersion classroom from a maximum to a minimum.

Second, because there is no guarantee that a waivered class can be assembled for the next grade in the following year, teachers in bilingual - education classes told me they were preparing their students for the possibility that they would have to go into an English - language classroom because there were no bilingual - education classrooms available.

I also have not found any non-Roman alphabet bilingual - education programs that teach initial literacy in the native language, even if the alphabet is phonetic (as in the case of Hebrew, Arabic, the Indian dialects, Russian, Armenian, and Khmer).

Nevertheless, Undersecretary Gary L. Bauer said at a briefing shortly after Mr. Bennett's Sept. 26 speech in New York City that the Education Department would seek to «broaden the definition» of transitional bilingual education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) Education Department would seek to «broaden the definition» of transitional bilingual education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) students.

Using the same technique to examine the gains made by the two groups following the implementation of Prop 227, Bali found that putting these same students in a structured immersion classroom the next year eliminated the small gap between English Learners who had been in bilingual education and those not in bilingual education.

In the fall of 2001, I asked several former bilingual - education teachers who were now teaching in sheltered English - immersion classrooms whether they would ever go back to bilingual education.

Even if the only children enrolled in programs labeled bilingual education were Spanish speakers, at most only 36 percent of Hispanic English Learners could have been enrolled in such programs.

The facilitation theory underlying bilingual education as just defined has two parts.

The English Learners who transferred from bilingual education to structured English immersion made gains of four points in reading compared with gains of only two points for the students who had been taught in English previously.